In Hong Kong, the fallout from the Octopus data privacy scandal continued to linger through the end of 2010, as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner released its report on the incident as well as a set of proposals for amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. This was followed shortly thereafter by a government report on the extensive public consultation on the review of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, or PDPO.
While the Privacy Commissioner’s report neither shed any new light on the incident, nor actually called out any specific breach of the ordinance by Octopus (apart from a perhaps excessive collection of data), the government report on the other hand, at almost 200 pages long, proved a interesting reading. Covering both proposals for the ordinance that will be taken forward for further review as well as those that will not, it provided members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco) with some great ammunition for the lengthy debates that took place in public and behind closed doors through November and December. And there are clearly many views from the various political parties and from those members that occupy the functional constituency seats (like insurance for example) that could be impacted by any proposed changes.
https://www.clickz.com/data-privacy-whose-responsibility-is-it-anyway/39429/
92% of US-based multinationals see the GDPR as their top data security priority over the next 12 months with 77% of businesses planning to spend over $1 million on GDPR compliance efforts. Here we look at some of the ways in which technology can help streamline this process and explain some of the opportunities presented by getting your ducks in a row.
With the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) due to come into full effect on 25 May 2018, the onus is on compliance efforts for businesses worldwide. Over 90% of US businesses see this as their top data security priority over the next year, and technology will be the defining factor in their attempts to abide by the new rules.
https://www.clickz.com/gdpr-the-role-of-technology-in-data-compliance/113865/
Microsoft is facing questions again, this time from the Netherlands Data Protection Authority (DPA), over how the company collects user data from the Windows 10 operating system meant for PCs. The DPA suggests that Microsoft is breaching the Dutch data protection laws, by processing user data from computing devices they use. This is not the first time that Microsoft has been questioned over the fairly aggressive collection of user data and how that information is handled....
http://www.livemint.com/Technology/z0YR5wrd8l58x5ZMvuUqEP/Microsoft-in-the-dock-again-for-aggressive-user-data-collect.html/
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