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ePrivacy Regulation: a risk for website security?

Last October the European Court of Justice confirmed that websites do have a legitimate interest in security that may justify the processing of personal data. That case (Breyer) overruled a German law that said websites could only process personal data for the purpose of delivering the pages requested by users. As far as I know, […]

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Investigatory Powers Act – new orders to prepare for

[UPDATE: I’ve added links to the Codes of Practice that authorities will use when preparing each of the orders] Under the current Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), organisations that operate their own private computer networks may receive three different orders relating to those systems. Any organisation that receives an order is, subject to […]