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Author: Gam Dias

Gam is data strategist and digital product manager working in the globally interconnected world of people, process and data. He has worked with global Fortune 500 companies such as Aviva Insurance, Rio Tinto, Cisco, Hyatt and has created and executed roadmaps that brought to market new data products, and realised greater internal efficiencies.

Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun?

“The future of privacy is likely to be complicated. For starters, no one can even agree what “privacy” means today. Some argue its first obituary was written 21 years ago when Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, pronounced: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That may, technically speaking, be true. A different …

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Direct marketing code of practice (UK Information Commissioner’s Office)

This is a statutory code of practice prepared under section 122 of theData Protection Act 2018. It provides practical guidance for thoseconducting direct marketing or operating within the broader directmarketing ecosystem. It explains the law and provides good practicerecommendations. Following the code along with other ICO guidancewill help you to comply with the GDPR and …

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California Wireless Network Security requirements

California law sets out minimum requirements for wireless access point security by imposing obligations on manufacturers to ensure consumers are aware of the risks and informed as to how to protect themselves. Who is regulated by the law (Territorial Scope)? What is regulated by the law (Material Scope)? Obligations imposed Enforcement California Wireless Network Security …

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GDPR and Brexit – What Does Leaving The EU Mean For UK Privacy Protections

As part of Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement Bill, the data privacy protections afforded by GDPR will remain intact for UK residents. Essentially, the current GDPR rules will still apply in the UK after Brexit and will be absorbed into and work hand in hand with the UK’s existing Data Protection Act of 2018. Q: Does …

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Happy “Data Privacy Day” – Now Read The New York Times Privacy Project About Total Surveillance

The shocking thing about the obvious and growing loss of privacy is how unconcerned everyone is. It’s worth saying again:  every time we blog, tweet, post, rideshare, order from Amazon, rent an Airbnb – or anything that leaves a digital trail – we feed what Shoshana Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism,” which is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people’s movements …

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Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) under GDPR & CCPA

Constantine Karbaliotis, a Canadian Privacy Lawyer has created the mother of all data access requests that a company may receive under GDPR or CCPA. These are the edge cases… but they are the requests that en masse could bring your IT department to its knees if unprepared. The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request under …

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Privacy by design: Securing ecosystems from the outset

Privacy cannot be looked at as an after-thought or a feature but as an integral part of a product lifecycle. Privacy by design means that protection of personal data is thought off at the design stage by the technology engineers. Key features: It is proactive, and not remedial Privacy has to be a default feature …

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