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…
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European Commission has revealed their proposal for updating of ePrivacy directive. I have previously analysed a version of ePrivacy document leaked in December.
The new regulation still provides strong guarantees of integrity and confidentiality of communication (concerning also Instant messengers such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangout, etc.). That’s…
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Understanding and perceiving privacy as a technological and strategic aspect is becoming a standard practice. The recently published NIST Internal Report “An Introduction to Privacy Engineering and Risk Management” is an interesting attempt to systematize the understanding of privacy engineering. Privacy in this view forms an important technical and strategic…
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I'm interested in battery status security/privacy potential for a while now. I have previously written about it here and recently my research led to web browser vendors removing battery readout functionality, citing privacy issues (Firefox, WebKit; Chrome has not decided yet).
I'm also very happy to have suggested to…
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It's 2016 and we are experiencing something unprecedented in the history of the Web.
Apparently, Web browsers (Firefox, Safari?) are removing parts of their functionality citing privacy concerns. This is a fascinating development.
Introduction
I am analysing security and privacy of modern Web for more than 8 years now. The…
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