Security, Privacy & Tech Inquiries

Lukasz Olejnik

I write about security, privacy, Web, technology and tech policy matters.

About me
My newsletter
Mastodon
07 Jun 2020 on progressive web application, data protection impact assessment, privacy, case study, gdpr

Case study: how the use of Progressive Web Apps may trigger data protection

I was hesitant to speak about contact tracing apps because so many people speak on the subject and the ratio of repeating the same cliches over and over is also high. Little insightful things are left to be said in this rather simple problem. But recently it emerged that a…

Read more

16 Aug 2019 on privacy, data protection impact assessment, dpia, data breach

On privacy impact assessment and leaking data of millions of users

Organizations voluntarily creating big public data breaches are rare. Recently it became widely known that the Public Transport Victoria (PTV) published a dataset of possibly over 15 million users. It was “anonymized”, but PTV may now still face a $336,000 data protection fine. How did this happen? Data Science…

Read more

18 Apr 2017 on privacy, dpia, pia, data protection impact assessment, privacy regulation, gdpr, eprivacy

Analysis of Working Party 29 DPIA Guidelines

When is Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) or Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) necessary and mandatory according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? So far there has been a lot of ambiguity surrounding the issue. I previously wrote about the DPIA guidelines (and its challenges) suggested by the Privacy Commission…

Read more

23 Jan 2017 on privacy, dpia, pia, data protection impact assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessment. First guidelines

One of the most important cultural change companies and organisations are beginning to face is the need of systematic inclusion of privacy and data protection in technical and organisational frameworks. A crucial aspect of these changes is the need of conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) and Data Protection Impact Assessments…

Read more

Page 1 of 1
Privacy policy.