What Can We Learn from the PSNI Data Breach?
In a recent data breach, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) fell victim to human error in a Freedom of Information (FOI) response that demonstrated the importance of ensuring that data protection and freedom of information are well integrated. Over 100 countries have implemented FOI laws, which allow individuals to request access to data […]
An introductory overview of the data protection challenges arising from the processing of Neurodata
Experts in ethics, data protection and data security have been discussing the recent development of new devices and methodologies for using information directly taken from the brain. These new advances are focused on understanding how the human brain works. As there is not an agreed definition of neurodata, concepts such as: “personal brain data” (defined […]
Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) imposes fine on the use of publicly available personal data
Despite the lack of official guidance on the topic of processing publicly available personal data, some General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provisions apply to the processing of such data. In general, the GDPR sees publicly available data as ‘data that have not been obtained from the data subject’. Furthermore, Article 86 and Recital 154 GDPR […]
The ICO announces a publication on challenges and possibilities in generating anonymous synthetic data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), together with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Alan Turing Institute, hosted a joint roundtable to discuss the challenges of synthetic data validation in the financial sector. As a result, the Research Paper “Exploring Synthetic Data Validation – Privacy, Utility and Fidelity” was recently published on the ICO website. Synthetic […]
Assessing the privacy of mhealth apps for self-tracking: heuristic evaluation approach
Background: The recent proliferation of self-tracking technologies has allowed individuals to generate significant quantities of data about their lifestyle. These data can be used to support health interventions and monitor outcomes. However, these data are often stored and processed by vendors who have commercial motivations, and thus, they may not be treated with the sensitivity […]
Assessing the privacy of mhealth apps for self-tracking: heuristic evaluation approach
Background: The recent proliferation of self-tracking technologies has allowed individuals to generate significant quantities of data about their lifestyle. These data can be used to support health interventions and monitor outcomes. However, these data are often stored and processed by vendors who have commercial motivations, and thus, they may not be treated with the sensitivity […]
Ethics and Privacy in AI and Big Data
Emerging combinations of artificial intelligence, big data, and the applications these enable are receiving significant attention concerning privacy and other ethical issues. We need a way to comprehensively understand these issues and find mechanisms of addressing them that involve stakeholders, including civil society, to ensure that these technologies’ benefits outweigh their disadvantages.
Privacy and trust at risk in surveillance societies
This chapter examines how privacy and trust are at risk in surveillance societies. It formulates several scenarios and policy recommendations addressing the risks and concludes by suggesting a research agenda aimed at mitigating future risks.
Integrating privacy and ethical impact assessments
New and emerging technologies often raise both ethical and privacy issues. The analysis and assessment of such issues is the task of privacy impact assessments and ethical impact assessments. Although there are various privacy impact assessment methodologies and ethical impact assessment methodologies, the two have not been integrated. Nevertheless, some researchers have been thinking about […]
Seven types of Privacy
A widely accepted definition of privacy has been, and remains, elusive within academic and legal frameworks. Nevertheless, when discussing new technologies and their impacts on human rights, “privacy” is almost always mentioned. In this article, Trilateral Research examines the ways in which different case study technologies impact privacy and uses this information to identify seven […]
