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Have you ever downloaded an app on your phone and looked at the permissions that the app requests.
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Have you ever downloaded an app on your phone and looked at the permissions that the app requests.

No, I don’t mean those midnight snacks you’ve been sneaking. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user’s computer.

You are probably reading this article on your smart phone, which has a digital footprint of all the people and entities in your life who you have interacted with online.
If you think your boss is a bit nosy and intrusive be thankful that you don’t work for a state-owned enterprise in China.

The world is running out of space. Parks are becoming buildings, highways are ploughing through farmland and your Blackberry that could store hundreds of photos has turned into your iPhone that can store thousands.

May 25 has come and gone; we are all very aware of the GDPR, the European Union’s new set of data privacy laws.

The Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) Child Safety Summit (“the Summit”) hosted by Google and Facebook took place on the 18 and 19 April 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.

There is a plethora of information relating to the necessity of compliance of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) , a European Union directive that will come into force on 25 May 2018.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has recently become a buzzword that everyone seems to be talking about but what exactly is it about?

While there are many similarities between the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) and the General Data Protection Regulations, (“GDPR”) there are also many differences.