Law Enforcement

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Blood in the Water: How the FTC May Target Your Organization Next

July 31, 2018

LabMD may have won an appeals case against the FTC, arguing that regulations regarding their cyber security practices were too vague to allow for prosecution, but every organization needs to be warned that the FTC could be coming for you next. Read More

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Cyber Security Insights

Love Affair with Facial Recognition Software: What Are the Cybersecurity Risks?

May 23, 2018

Is facial recognition software secure by design? A question rarely asked is “how safe is the infrastructure that holds and processes all this data?” As long as organizations refuse to audit the security of their suppliers, facial recognition software will remain inherently unsafe, especially in the hands of the police. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

Does Predictive Policing Really Result in Biased Arrests?

April 9, 2018

Predictive policing models have shown remarkable ability to help clamp down on illegal activity and reduce crime. But do these methods lead to systematic bias against certain minority communities or ethnic groups? IUPUI study based on real-world data shows there is no statistically significant evidence of racial bias. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

Predictive Policing Raises Important Privacy and Human Rights Concerns

March 16, 2018

Law enforcement agencies around the world are embracing new predictive policing technology that will help them spot criminals before a crime ever takes place. However, communities often have little or no idea of why or how this technology is being used, and that raises some important privacy and human rights concerns. Read More

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Cyber Security Insights

Uber Breach: Will They Ever Learn and Will Consumers Ever Care?

November 27, 2017

The Uber breach that affected 57 million people shows the near complete lack of care at the company with regard to customer data – as well as the company’s inability to learn from previous security mishaps. Are customers already desensitized after hearing data breach after data breach or will this be a wake-up call? Read More

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Crime: The Growing Underground Market

November 10, 2017

Cost of cyber crime has kept on growing and the underground market is now a legitimate $114 billion economy. We need a global effort to combat this threat. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

The Recent US v. Apple Case in Context (Part IV)

August 26, 2016

In this, the final instalment in the series, Pauline C. Reich, Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Research Institute at the Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan examines the implications of the recent US v. Apple case in terms of disclosure requirements in Asia and across the globe. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

The Recent US v. Apple Case in Context (Part II)

June 21, 2016

In this, the second of a series of articles, Professor Reich examines the implications of the battle between Apple and the U.S. government for other jurisdictions worldwide. Read More

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Data Privacy Insights

Apple vs The FBI – The Asian Perspective

March 21, 2016

The ongoing battle royal between Apple and the FBI, which is trying to force the Cupertino based company to disable the built-in protections of an iPhone formerly owned by a terrorist has long term implications for privacy across the globe. Whether Apple wins or loses privacy advocates are watching the events extremely carefully. Data Privacy Asia reached out to some experts across Asia for their opinion on the ongoing legal battle. Read More