Not everyone agrees what is (and isn’t) personal information

Deliberations among European Union member countries made privacy headlines in early 2008 when Peter Scharr, data protection commissioner for Germany and leader of a group of EU data privacy regulators, while speaking at a European Parliament…

Personal data breach notification law may be in the works for Europe

A May 6 article in the New York Times (“E.U. To Consider More Stringent Reporting of Data Breaches“) includes quotes an opinions from a number of people suggesting that the European Union may be heading for…