Roger Halbheer on Security
I guess you heard the ruling by the Court of Justice for the European Union on cross-border transfer. I think it is important to understand our position on this as outlined here: Assuring Customers About Cross-Border Data Flows From my point of view the important parts are: Today the Court of Justice for the European…
With countries slowly trying to find a way back to a new normality, contact tracing is one of the means to keep the infection rate on an acceptable level. Digitalization might be one way to support these activities – the corresponding apps on phones are in the press since a while. Privacy and the “Big…
This is definitely a significant next step in our efforts to drive privacy and a transparent way. It will help our customers to fulfill their privacy obligations in a more straightforward way..
Azure is now certified for the ISO/IEC 27701 privacy standard
It took a while. I expected GDPR to hit sooner and I expected the authorities to go after non-European companies. I was wrong in both cases. 1&1 – a German telco – just got hit with a significant fine for GDPR violations: € 9.55 Mio. The case is very interesting to me, especially if you…
This week the European Identity and Cloud Conference took place, where Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Identity was talking. She was actually announcing some very interesting efforts around identity and privacy, mainly the work we do around decentralized identity. If you read her blog post here, you will find a few very remarkable statement like…
Over the course of the last months we got a lot of good questions on Office telemetry and the data we collect to ensure the product runs smooth, secure and delivers on your expectations. Privacy is constantly in our focus and we are always trying to make improvements in that space to increase customer trust.…
A lot of people just throw away their boarding pass after a flight. I mean, what information do you find on it? Name, seat, date and flight. So what? You can find this information for a lot of people on social media anyway, right? Well, not really. There is other information on it as well…
It is interesting how many companies offer privacy services since the EU announced GDPR and the number is still growing. Almost every company today has a GDPR practice or at least is offering GDPR services. The question shall be asked, whether they are up to the task. I would expect – as companies will get…
This is a very interesting experiment – and actually very, very frightening:
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This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:
and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is right
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You might know the problem if you are working in consulting: You have to fill out the report, form whom you spent your time. And then you forgot to fill in the tool and all of a sudden you have a hard time figuring out where you have been. There is a revolution: iPhone solves…
Well, basically this title attracted my attention: How to Do an Online Background Check for Free. I had to try it with myself. So I started, following the sites and suggestions in the article: I clicked on the first link and landed on 9 Sites That Find People and Their ‘Sensitive’ Information – cool. Let’s…
I often read two kinds of articles when it comes to ISPs and protecting privacy. In side asks for as much privacy as possible, the other one for transparency to fight cybercrime. What is our real goal? What is the role of ISPs in fighting crime? An interesting study by the OECD in comparison with an article I read today.
It is always bad, if comics have a significant portion of truth…
This discussion is very old: How much privacy are we willing to give up to help to fight crime. This discussion has to be held in a society. The FBI just kick-started it again in the US.
I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. Fairly often it is thought provoking… He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location. He was one (probably of the very few) reading the privacy policy and found the following statement: Collection and Use of…
Sometimes I wonder whether I am too paranoid. I just got a call, which went like that: Caller: “Hello, we are doing a health insurance survey and have just three questions for you, would you mind to join in? Just 20 seconds. We do it for Health Insurance statistics.†Me: Was in a very good…
I am convinced that there are workloads that can and should be moved to the Cloud: For security reasons as well as for economical reasons. E-Mail might well be the first one of them.
There is a good post on that: Editor’s Note: Email, the Lowest-Hanging Fruit of the Cloud
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You might have read that I ranted a little bit about the iPad data breach: Who needs a (vulnerable) iPad if you can get an nPad? and some people pushed back – which I can understand. So, to put it into perspective, I read this article this morning on the worst data breaches of the…
You know that I am not a big fan of the requirement for having all Internet users authenticate strongly. There are people in the security arena who think that this is the only way to fight cybercrime – and in parallel accept that they would kill freedom of speech. I recently had a good discussion…
