Where next for the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act?blogzilla
Talk at Open Tech 2015 on legal reform of UK interception and surveillance laws, including a comparison of the Intelligence and Security Committee and David Anderson reports.
Transatlantic data flows following the Schrems II judgmentblogzilla
Brief summary of Ian Brown and Douwe Korff’s study for the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee, presented at a committee hearing on 9 November 2021
My presentation at the IGov2 conference at the University of Oslo, 9 Sept 2014. Gave shorter version at Norwegian Board of Technology hearing on 10 Sept 2014. Related journal article at http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/01/ijlit.eau007.abstract
Audio at http://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/research/projects/nrccl/internet-governance/events/dag-2-del-2-norrm-mp3.mp3
rights and responsibilities
privacy by design strategies
privacy principles
privacy enhancing technologies (PETs)
big data concerns
private, shared and public - boundary transitions
data protection impact assessment (DPIA)
cross border data transfers
derogations for research
Freedom of Information - Implementation and Statutory Provisions of the Act (...EquiGov Institute
This Presentation seeks to highlight the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in Trinidad and Tobago, Outline the Statutory Provisions that exist and note some of the challenges faced in implementing and operation the Act.
Introduction to the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act Trinidad a...EquiGov Institute
This presentation serves as an introduction to the operations and provisions f the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act in Trinidad and Tobago
Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173)Kirk Go
Republic Act 10173 otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012. This version presents Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for the Act. It outlines provisions, scope, privacy principles, lawful processing of data, security measures, rights of data subject, accountability, penalties, and others.
Where next for the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act?blogzilla
Talk at Open Tech 2015 on legal reform of UK interception and surveillance laws, including a comparison of the Intelligence and Security Committee and David Anderson reports.
Transatlantic data flows following the Schrems II judgmentblogzilla
Brief summary of Ian Brown and Douwe Korff’s study for the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee, presented at a committee hearing on 9 November 2021
My presentation at the IGov2 conference at the University of Oslo, 9 Sept 2014. Gave shorter version at Norwegian Board of Technology hearing on 10 Sept 2014. Related journal article at http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/01/ijlit.eau007.abstract
Audio at http://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/research/projects/nrccl/internet-governance/events/dag-2-del-2-norrm-mp3.mp3
rights and responsibilities
privacy by design strategies
privacy principles
privacy enhancing technologies (PETs)
big data concerns
private, shared and public - boundary transitions
data protection impact assessment (DPIA)
cross border data transfers
derogations for research
Freedom of Information - Implementation and Statutory Provisions of the Act (...EquiGov Institute
This Presentation seeks to highlight the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in Trinidad and Tobago, Outline the Statutory Provisions that exist and note some of the challenges faced in implementing and operation the Act.
Introduction to the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act Trinidad a...EquiGov Institute
This presentation serves as an introduction to the operations and provisions f the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act in Trinidad and Tobago
Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173)Kirk Go
Republic Act 10173 otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012. This version presents Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for the Act. It outlines provisions, scope, privacy principles, lawful processing of data, security measures, rights of data subject, accountability, penalties, and others.
A paper written in April 2016 for my Corporate Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management course on the switch from
the EU-US Safe Harbor to the EU-US Privacy Shield data privacy regimes.
Frequently Asked Questions on the judgment of the Court
of Justice of the European Union in Case C-311/18 - Data
Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and
Maximillian Schrems
The UK and EU Personal Data Regime After Brexit: Another Switzerland?David Erdos
These slides provide an overview of the personal data relationship between the UK and EU after Brexit. Under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the UK will have the closest connection with the EU here outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland. This is especially clear in the area of justice and security where there is very extensive provision for data exchange based on common standards. However, in the general area of data protection the framework only points to mutual adequacy. Even with the evolving formulation of this as “essential equivalence”, significant flexibility is retained and this may ultimately result in more substantive divergence than EU-Switzerland given the UK’s more distinct data protection approach. Common bona fide implementation of the Council of Europe’s Data Protection Convention 108+ may provide a good lodestar in the medium term and I very tentatively map out what this may could mean for default standards in the UK related to sensitive data and integrity and also specific substantive restrictions to ensure a more graduated approach and reconciliation with other competing rights.
Data Protection Guide – What are your rights as a citizen?Edouard Nguyen
Guide UK Data Protection Law EUROPA - Internal Market - Data Protection - Data Protection Guide – What are your rights as a citizen?http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/privacy/docs/guide/guide-ukingdom_en.pdf
Are blockchain and EU-GDPR compatible? This presentation from 2020, from Dennis Hillemann (Podcast: The Blockchain lawyer), explains the most important legal challenges. The presentation explains:
- What are basic principles of GDPR?
- What are basic functionalities of the blockchain technology?
- What main issues are there between GDPR and blockchain technology?
- What is personal data in a blockchain scenario?
- Personal data & encryption and & hashing
- Salting and Peppering
- Data processor and controller in a blockchain scneario
- Right to rectification and right to erasure
- Transfer to third countries
- National and internatinal activities to bring Blockchain and GDPR together.
Draft Bill on the Protection of Personal DataRenato Monteiro
Presentation given at the DataGuidance´s webinar "Brazil: Towards Privacy Compliance", about the Brazlian Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data (Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais) issued in January 2015, which introduced concepts such as Data Protection Officer and Binding Corporate Rules.
A quick view on the DATA RETENTION AND INVESTIGATORY POWERS ACT 2014, aiming to sort out the retained data by ISPs, the modifications happened in the last version and analyzing why the modifications took place. This quick study comes within a chain of comprehensive researches in the Middle Eastern legislative efforts to have a complete legal framework fighting cybercrime
In contemporary democratic societies, where technology is pervasive, the right to privacy remains a fundamental human right that pertains to an individual’s ability to keep their personal or identifiable information, activities, and private life free from unwanted intrusion or interference by public authorities except in accordance with law (Caprioli, et al., 2006).
Artificial Intelligence isn't just an overly imaginary pipe dream anymore. So what if algorithm starts mining for you after your gone? Or still hear, point is nobody can assume it couldn't.
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER
Should the European Union require the largest social networking services (like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) to be interoperable with competitors? I explain why and how they should. Originally presented to the European Parliament’s Digital Markets Act working group of MEPs and staff in Brussels, on 24/5/23
Lessons for interoperability remedies from UK Open Bankingblogzilla
The UK’s Open Banking programme is a world-leading experiment in requiring banks to open up customer accounts (with their explicit consent) to third-party providers. What lessons can be learnt from this case for legislation that would require dominant platforms to provide similar functionality?
Introduction to Cybersecurity for Electionsblogzilla
Slides for a 15-minute introduction to Cybersecurity for Elections: A Commonwealth Guide on Best Practice, by Ian Brown, Chris Marsden, James Lee and Michael Veale, published 5 Mar 2020
A basic cybersecurity introduction for managers, explaining how they and their organisation can guard against common types of attacks, based on the UK National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Essentials programme
My presentation at the Tunis Online Freedom Conference, 17 June 2013. Updated for Asia Privacy Scholars Network conference, 9 July 2013, Hong Kong University, and significantly updated for the SCL Policy Forum, 12 Sep 2013, and presentations at Deutsche Bank and Amberhawk (May 2014)
Overview of our GNI report, downloadable from http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/new-report-outlines-recommendations-governments-companies-and-others-how-protect-free
Privacy attitudes, incentives and behavioursblogzilla
Presentation at Data Protection Governance symposium, IViR, University of Amsterdam, 20 June 2011, and at Hong Kong University law school seminar on 2 Mar 2012
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. Main provisions
§1(1): This Directive aims to harmonise Member States' provisions
concerning the obligations of the providers of publicly available
electronic communications services or of public communications
networks with respect to the retention of certain data which are
generated or processed by them, in order to ensure that the data are
available for the purpose of the investigation, detection and
prosecution of serious crime…
§3(1): … to the extent that those data are generated…in the process of
supplying the communications services concerned.
§4: … The procedures to be followed and the conditions to be fulfilled in
order to gain access to retained data in accordance with necessity and
proportionality requirements shall be defined by each Member State in its
national law, subject to the relevant provisions of European Union law or
public international law…
§6: … the categories of data specified in Article 5 are retained for periods
of not less than six months and not more than two years from the date of
the communication.
4. Proportionality of retaining data
“The decision to retain communication
data for the purpose of combating serious
crime is an unprecedented one with a
historical dimension. It encroaches into
the daily life of every citizen and may
endanger the fundamental values and
freedoms all European citizens enjoy and
cherish.” –Article 29 WP Opinion 3/2006
5. Article 10: Statistics
1. Member States shall ensure that the Commission is
provided on a yearly basis with statistics on the retention of
data generated or processed in connection with the provision
of publicly available electronic communications services or a
public communications network. Such statistics shall include:
the cases in which information was provided to the competent
authorities in accordance with applicable national law,
the time elapsed between the date on which the data were
retained and the date on which the competent authority
requested the transmission of the data,
the cases where requests for data could not be met.
2. Such statistics shall not contain personal data.
6. Comms data requests/m people
Data: European Commission review of Data Retention Directive; IMF World Economic Outlook
7. Article 10 “confusion”
“There are different interpretations of the term 'cases'. This term could mean
(i) each and every item of data that was or was not provided
(ii) each request which may be for one set or multiple sets of data
(iii) each investigation in which there might be multiple requests for multiple items of data.
“Where the request is addressed to a service provider is for more than one item of
data, the data may be of different ages. Recording the age of individual data records
could be unduly onerous for operators and/or competent authorities.
“Statistics submitted from some Member States only refer to requests for traffic and
location data and not to subscriber information acquired from operators.
“The phrase 'Cases where requests for data could not be met' has been interpreted
in various ways to mean
i) cases where the service provider was unable to provide data that should have been
retained under the DRD but were not retained;
ii) data that were needed but which do not fall within the scope of the DRD, or iii) data that
had been retained but were no longer available because the request was made after the
expiry of the retention period.”
Evidence for necessity of data retention in the EU, 2013, p.2
8. National court decisions
Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court blocked remote Ministry of
Interior access to data and security service access without a court
order (11 Dec 2008)
“the obligation to retain the data … as an exception or a derogation
from the principle of personal data protection … empties, through
its nature, length and application domain, the content of this
principle” –Romanian Constitutional Court, 8 Oct 2009
“Given the rapid advance of current technology it is of great
importance to define the legitimate legal limits of modern
surveillance techniques used by governments… without sufficient
legal safeguards the potential for abuse and unwarranted invasion
of privacy is obvious” –Irish High Court, 5 May 2010
9. DG HOME DRD reform plans
reduced and harmonised retention period
“Approx. 67% of data is requested within three
months and 89% within six months” (Evidence for
necessity of data retention in the EU, 2013, p.7)
clear scope of types of data to be retained
minimum standards for access and use of data
stronger data protection
consistent approach to reimbursing operators'
costs
10. Advocate General’s Opinion
Opinion of Advocate General Cruz Villalon,
12/12/13, Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12:
§70: “Directive 2006/24 constitutes a particularly
serious interference with the right to privacy”
§72: “The collection of such data establishes the
conditions for surveillance which, although carried out
only retrospectively when the data are used, none the
less constitutes a permanent threat throughout the data
retention period to the right of citizens”
§149: “no argument was able to convince me of the
need to extend data retention beyond one year”
11. Court of Justice’s judgment
“Those data, taken as a whole, may allow very precise conclusions to be drawn
concerning the private lives of the persons whose data has been retained, such as the
habits of everyday life, permanent or temporary places of residence, daily or other
movements, the activities carried out, the social relationships of those persons and
the social environments frequented by them.”
Retention “constitutes in itself an interference with the rights guaranteed by Article 7 of
the Charter… the access of the competent national authorities to the data constitutes a
further interference with that fundamental right”
“the fact that data are retained and subsequently used without the subscriber or
registered user being informed is likely to generate in the minds of the persons
concerned the feeling that their private lives are the subject of constant surveillance.”
Directive does not “adversely affect the essence of those rights”, but “the fight
against serious crime…does not, in itself, justify a retention measure”
Broad scope “entails an interference with the fundamental rights of practically the
entire European population… it is not restricted to a retention in relation (i) to data
pertaining to a particular time period and/or a particular geographical zone and/or to a
circle of particular persons likely to be involved, in one way or another, in a serious crime,
or (ii) to persons who could, for other reasons, contribute, by the retention of their data,
to the prevention, detection or prosecution of serious offences.”
12. Court of Justice’s judgment
“the access by the competent national authorities to the data
retained is not made dependent on a prior review carried out by
a court or by an independent administrative body whose decision
seeks to limit access to the data”
“does not require the data in question to be retained within the
European Union, with the result that it cannot be held that the
control, explicitly required by Article 8(3) of the Charter, by an
independent authority of compliance with the requirements of
protection and security, as referred to in the two previous
paragraphs, is fully ensured.”
“Having regard to all the foregoing considerations, it must be held
that, by adopting Directive 2006/24, the EU legislature has
exceeded the limits imposed by
compliance with the principle of proportionality in the light of
Articles 7, 8 and 52(1) of the Charter.”