Month: July 2018

There is an interesting court case going on in Sweden whereby the Swedish Press had made a case (5200_18 DI and journalist case_publicity vs privacy (1)) against the Datainspektion (Swedish SA) to publish all breaches submitted by Swedish companies.  This is still in progress. Sweden, as you will know from my blog have a very strong freedom of information culture, so it’s interesting that the Datainspektion seems to be taking a stance against the journalists. It has been really great to see the Swedish SA jumping on the power they now have, and using it.

Although, I don’t completely agree with them on this specific point. I believe all breaches should be made public, but it is fun observing the action!

 

 

Finally it is ready for launch, at least beta, we are still fixing the payments part. In the meantime you can take a look at a privacy community I’ve been working on for over a year now with a Swedish company called Haaartland. To be a member, it will cost only €9 per month as a privacy early-bird. We wanted to make it accessible to all who were interested in privacy irrespective of how deep pockets they have!

It is a self-help privacy forum, although it is much much more! You need to visit to really get what it’s about. It is a focused forum on privacy, and the GDPR is in there in graphical form… as a member you can Post, Comment and build up your Tribe of favourite contributors. You can find out more and Join via the Privasee website or jump straight in here and request to Join.

By joining, and getting active you will help Privasee make this a success (which, if you didn’t know I am founder ;)), and meet our vision to “make privacy accessible to all”!

OMG Forbes has got it see article, you know that information and security are NOT the same. Maybe the author of the article actually read my latest book. Filip (co-author) says that the use of ‘data protection’ over ‘Privacy’ compliance hadn’t helped at all in the EU. But I guess we do want to be different from Americans after all 😉

Well this article is not directly privacy, but it does give some insight into how the EU Comission deals with unfair competition. However there is one word in data privacy laws which has a commonality with anti competition, and that is CHOICE.