Data privacy

"We didn't mean to upset you!" But is Facebook's apology good enough to fend off regulators? This article is sponsored by:

Facebook Sheryl Sandberg sort of says she's sorry. But is that enough to draw a line under the ‘scandal’ of manipulating users or is there more trouble ahead?

Pedophiles and politicos rewrite history through Europe's 'right to be forgotten' This article is sponsored by:

It was of course utterly predictable to anyone with an ounce of common sense that endorsing the ‘right to be forgotten’ would see an immediate rush to rewrite history by assorted ne’er-do-wells of varying political and criminal dispositions.

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European court's Google ruling provides a blunt instrument to rewrite history This article is sponsored by:

The European Court of Justice's wooly ruling against Google places the rights of an individual above the wider societal obligations of not being able to erase inconvenient truths.

Non-US citizens to get US privacy rights in the cloud under Obama Big Data overhaul? This article is sponsored by:

The White House is backing changes to the law, including the currently stalled-in-Congress Electronic Privacy Communications Act, which would offer protection for email and other data stored in the cloud.

Why almost everyone is wrong about HMRC's plans to sell data This article is sponsored by:

Opening up business data is a key ingredient in ensuring that tax practitioners have the best information to meet client needs. Resisting that is stupid.

Open data or privacy breach? This article is sponsored by:

It seems that one person's open data policy is someone else's privacy breach. Can the tech industry resolve the conflict?

A warning: open data should not be swallowed up by private companies This article is sponsored by:

MPs in the UK have said in a new report that the public should have an 'inherent right' to government data

NHS data sold to consultants and uploaded to Google servers – Twitter explodes This article is sponsored by:

Privacy experts are going to run with this, but we need to take a more balanced look at what the benefits and risks are

How to make a healthcare data sharing controversy worse This article is sponsored by:

You’ve got to hand it to the UK government. If there was one way to make its plans to build a hugely controversial database of patients data even more controversial it would to be hand the contract to build it to outsourcing giant Atos.

Back to 1984 as UK politicians erase history from the internet This article is sponsored by:

We have always been at war with Eurasia. We never promised more open government. We have not said we'd match the previous government's spending commitments. We have not attempted to rewrite uncomfortable realities.

What GMail knows about me and you This article is sponsored by:

You can now visualize all your connections. these show us patterns of activity between people and those in groups that will be familiar to us. But what does this say about our privacy and what are the implications for business?

Open necked for open data at the G8 This article is sponsored by:

Overshadowed by arguments about Syria and the vexed but all important 'tie or open necked' question for the photo calls, the leaders of the G8 countries did good this week with the signing of the Open Data Charter (ODC). But let's make it stick in practice.

I left my data in San Francisco This article is sponsored by:

Central government in the US and the UK is wielding its open data stick, but how does this translate to local and regional level? San Francisco is setting an interesting pace for others to follow.