On ICT law, politics and other digital stuff
The Internet is a necessary tool to handle international exchanges. Online Professional Content Delivery Services should pay the utmost attention to the information they release Continue reading “Bruce Lee, Getty Images and the Dangers of Cultural Oversimplification in an Overconnected World”
Thanks to professor Raymond Wacks, possibly the world leading authority on privacy and privacy-related issues, I had the chance to read a more-than-500-pages-long privacy decision issued by the Indian Supreme Court last August 27. Definitely, a text that worth to be read. Continue reading “A landmark decision about privacy from Indian Supreme Court?”
A basic rule when designing a law is to create a precise link between the “order” part (thou shall not…) and the fine deriving from the non compliance (… otherwise shall go to jail.) But this is not enough, because to have a law working properly or being effective, it must be actually enforceable, otherwise this law would turn from a social regulation tool into an abuse of power from the State. Continue reading “The Basic Unfairness of the GDPR: a Regulation with No Teeth”
“Popular Robots are Dangerously Easy to Hack, Cybersecurity Firm Says” is an article by Jeremy Kahn published on Bloomberg Technology’s website that accounts for some vulnerabilities found in robot deployed in the industrial and home sectors. Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Article Delivers Misleading Information on Robot Insecurity”
A fair quantity of data processing, though digitally performed, is outside of the GDPR’s reach.
I do not have figures comparing database-based processing to instantaneous, non-filing-system-handled data manning, nevertheless it is fair to say that the latter are a relevant part of the digital ecosystem (think of the instant messaging sector, where end-to-end communication is not necessarily meant to be stored.) As such, these kind of processing are not covered by the GDPR. Continue reading “GDPR is for Filing System Processed Data Only”