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The EDPS published the Model Administrative Arrangement for transfers of personal data

EDPS Model

31 July 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
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The European Commission published the Second Report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation

The second report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

30 July 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
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Cryptgeon: A short guide to self-hosting

An excellent service for secure data and file transfer

7 July 2024 · 5 min · NicFab
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Restic: excellent resource for local and cloud backup

Backing up with powerful open-source resources

14 May 2024 · 6 min · NicFab
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The EU AI Act will be passed soon: an overview of the current status

Soon we will have the EU AI Act

7 March 2024 · 3 min · NicFab
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): an evergreen category - part 2

PETs in the age of the Web3

27 July 2023 · 5 min · NicFab
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): an evergreen category - part 1

PETs in the age of the Web3

24 July 2023 · 9 min · NicFab
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Nym Mixnet: one of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)?

A new paradigm of traffic on the Internet network

22 July 2023 · 4 min · NicFab
Fine anno 2021

Contact tracing and privacy: an oxymoron. Any technical solution is neutral compared to privacy laws

The content of this post is available in PDF for download here: 1. Chronology of events During the last month, i.e. since the focus has increased on the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to personal data protection, we have witnessed the publication of the following main measures issued by some institutional bodies: ...

14 April 2020 · 16 min · NicFab
Fine anno 2021

Digital life and privacy: are we fighting against ourselves?

The year is ending and I would propose some food for thoughts. Nowadays it seems that people are slaves of digital life, captured by devices and online social phenomena. What kind of phenomenon are we living? Is it a battle where people fight against digital contents provider or are we fighting against ourselves? Probably, it isn’t precisely a battle, but a matter of approach. The human uncontrollable desire to be potentially anywhere leads us to exalt the power of digital resources if we can be - although virtually - somewhere in the world together with others, showing our presence anyway. People, to realise this kind of digital desire, are available to unconditionally provide their personal data to everyone (developers or software provider) requires them. People can be excited by digital resources, but probably they don’t realise that in that way they risk being victims if it happens without awareness. We have always to balance the will to have any apps necessary to exhibit ourselves with the awareness about our personal data. What kind of addiction is it? Are we exaggerating, but above all, are we aware? Is it a human factor? The human factor is unpredictable and uncontrollable if not solely by our consciousness and awareness. We cannot discuss only in terms of abuse or misuse of personal data by developers and companies, but - above all - it is a matter of people’s awareness. Any organization or company has its own digital sovereignty and should act respecting human dignity firstly, consequently data protection laws and hence the “data protection by design and by default” principle. Generally speaking, respecting privacy and data protection should not mean to behave well only to avoid to be exposed to fines or sanctions but, essentially, to comply with the accountability principle, looking over, toward the right balance between ethics, human dignity and norms. ...

30 December 2019 · 2 min · NicFab