By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  (CEO) and Eric De Grasse (Chief Technology Officer).  

10 June 2013 – Wow. So George Orwell and Philip K. Dick were right: “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type” (quoting Glenn Greenwald, the blogger who revealed the existence of PRISM as leaked to him by Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician). Although what immediately came to mind was the 1998 movie “Enemy…

Tags: cybersecurity, PRISM, privacy

13 March 2013-  Social media sites have been rocking with the news from the University of Cambridge report on Facebook. In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university’s psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research center analyzed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles. In short, research showed that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy…

Tags: algorithms, algorithms at the heart of predictive analytics, Facebook, Microsoft, privacy, psychometrics, University of Cambridge

28 January 2013- In the spirit of an open and safe internet – and to mark international Data Privacy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and promoting data privacy education – Twitter has released its second ever transparency report with a dedicated website.

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Tags: Data Privacy Day, privacy, Twitter

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Reported by:  Darius Champion and Gregory P. Bufithis

24 October 2012 -  Jérôme Kerviel’s attempt to overturn a prison sentence was thrown out of court today after a Paris judge rejected the former Société Générale trader’s appeal.  Mireille Filippini, the Paris court judge, upheld the rogue trader’s 2010 five-year sentence — three years in prison and two suspended — and ordered him to…

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23 January 2012 -  This week (January 25, 26 and 27) Brussels will be host to the 5th International Conference on Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP 2012).  And the timing could not be better.  The European Commission will on Wednesday propose far-reaching changes to rules dictating how companies handle any personal information, the first time EU regulations first crafted in 1995 are updated. The proposals will impose a single set of privacy standards in the EU’s 27…

Tags: 5th International Conference on Computers, Brussels, CPDP 2012, data privacy, e-disclosure, e-discovery, EU Data Protection Directive, European Union data protection directive, privacy, Privacy & Data Protection

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BY:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.    Founder/CEO

6 May 2011 –  I settled in Brussels about seven years ago (I hold several nationalities and am fluent in several languages) after a career in the…

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3 April 2011 — We’ve written on this topic a number of times so if you are veteran readers you have read much of this. Here is our take on the “philosophical” differences:

First a simple (but eloquent) explanation of the…

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31 January 2011 -  According to its mission statement, the annual conference “Computers, Privacy and Data Protection” in Brussels aims to create a bridge between policy makers, academics, practitioners and activists, and aims to become Europe’s most important forum for the discussion of data protection and privacy issues.  The theme of the conference this year was “European Data Protection: In Good Health?” and the first day of the three day conference was indeed entirely devoted to…

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18 January 2011 — The European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has issued an opinion in response to  the Commission’s Communication regarding the “Review of the Data Protection Legal Framework” .  Hustinx agrees with the Commission that a review of the present legal framework for data protection in the EU is necessary in order to ensure effective protection in a further developing information society.  On the other hand, Hustinx believes that a more ambitious approach than the one proposed by…

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Reported by:  Darius Champion, special correspondent to Project Counsel and Gregory P. Bufithis, founder and chairman of Project Counsel

6 October 2010 –Former Société Générale trader Jérome Kerviel was found guilty of breach of trust, computer abuse and forgery by a Paris court on Tuesday for his role in a trading scandal that cost the bank close to €5bn ($7bn).

Kerviel was sentenced to…

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