NEW DELHI (Reuters) – US technology giants plan to intensify lobbying efforts against stringent Indian data localization requirements, which they say will undermine their growth ambitions in India, sources told Reuters. US trade groups, representing Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s finance ministry has proposed relaxing a directive from the country’s central bank that would compel global payment firms to store customer data only locally, following weeks of intense lobbying by Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s information regulator slapped Facebook with a small but symbolic fine for breaches of data protection law after millions of users’ data was improperly accessed by consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The 500,000 pound Read more…
Recent breaches and scandals involving misuse of user data has ignited a debate over data ownership. Blockchain could tilt the balance in favor of end users, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. Since Read more…
It is easy to dismiss the GDPR debacle as just that, a debacle. No one is prepared for it, not even government departments that are meant to be enforcing it. No one has seen any change Read more…
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Financial watchdogs from North America, Britain and Asia are urgently seeking a formal exemption from the European Union’s tough new GDPR data privacy law to avoid hampering cross-border investigations, regulatory officials told Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: how to control your robot; blockchained Pokemons; better IoT device tracking; big data is bad Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Around a quarter of Japanese businesses have made progress on meeting some of the easier requirements under Europe’s new GDPR data privacy regulations while about another 20% plan to do so, a Read more…
GDPR has put consent front and center in the big data debate – that’s why companies need to go further and develop proactive policies that give consumers full control. The EU General Data Protection Regulation Read more…
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese lawmakers approved a controversial cyber security law on Tuesday, voting amid tight security following weekend protests over other legislation that turned violent in some parts of the communist country. The law, Read more…
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