October 25, 2012

I've been invited by the University of Oxford

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I will be giving a talk at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford on 19 November 2012. The title of my presentation is "As...
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October 18, 2012

French Regulator Says Google Violates EU Privacy Rules

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In a ruling, France’s privacy-rights regulator said Google’s new privacy policy violated European data-protection rules. Google failed to...
April 19, 2012

KOREAN NEW DATA PROTECTION ACT

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Professor Abu Bakar Munir In March 2011, the South Korean government adopted a more comprehensive law titled the Personal Information P...
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March 17, 2012

TAIWAN'S NEW DATA PROTECTION ACT

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Professor Abu Bakar Munir On April 27, 2010, the Taiwan legislature amended the old Computer Processed Personal Data Prot...
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March 16, 2012

Lawmakers Focus on Cyberattacks on Infrastructure

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During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that co...
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March 1, 2012

French Agency Says Google’s Privacy Policy May Be Illegal

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The French data protection authority said that Google’s new privacy policy appeared to violate European Union law, raising the stakes in a...
February 23, 2012

British Judge Allows Serving Claims via Facebook

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Legal authorities said that a High Court judge in England has approved the use of Facebook to serve legal claims. Lawyers in a commercial ...
January 29, 2012

THE PROPOSED PHILIPPINES DATA PRIVACY ACT

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January 27, 2012

THE PROPOSED SINGAPORE DATA PROTECTION ACT

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January 25, 2012

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT 2010: BUSINESS AS USUAL?

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January 11, 2012

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LAWMAKERS WANT MORE PRIVACY ANSWERS FROM FACEBOOK Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., lashed out at Facebook for failin...
January 5, 2012

SAUDI HACKERS POST PERSONAL INFO ON ISRAELIS

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A group of Saudi hackers dubbed Group-XP claimed to have posted the personal information of nearly half a million Israelis online, though ...
December 23, 2011

FACEBOOK CHANGES PRIVACY RULES AFTER IRISH PROBE

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Facebook agreed to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America, after a three-month investigation...

CHINESE HACKERS BREAK INTO U.S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America’s top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored...
December 9, 2011

JUDGE SAYS BLOGGER DOESN'T QUALIFY AS JOURNALIST

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A U.S. District Court judge in Portland, Ore., ruled that a blogger who wrote about an investment firm that subsequently accused her of d...
December 2, 2011

FACEBOOK SETTLES PRIVACY CHARGES WITH FTC

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Facebook has settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users by telling them they could keep their information o...
November 24, 2011

DATA PROTECTION LAW IS COMING TO ASIA

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Professor Abu Bakar Munir Thirty one years after the adoption of the first international instrument, the data protection law is now coming ...
November 18, 2011

PORN COMPANY SUES ICANN OVER .XXX DOMAIN

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November 16, 2011

GERMANY SUSPECTS FACEBOOK OF ILLEGAL TRACKING

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Facebook may be tracking the Internet activity of users even after they cancel their accounts, the German data privacy watchdog said. Afte...
November 4, 2011

PRIVACY LAW PROMPTS KIDS TO LIE, REPORT SAYS

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A federal law aimed at protecting the privacy of children under 13 has instead resulted in millions of kids lying about their age — often ...