The ICO (the UK's supervisory authority) is one of the largest and most active SA's in the EU. If you actually take note of what they are saying, their focus is on helping people comply not punishing non-compliance. If you can get BBC iPlayer, check out Click - there's an interview with senior representative from the ICO.
They have stated they will only use fines for the the most negligent or careless cases and for repeat offenders.
If you look at their track record under the Data Protection Act, this is what they have done in the past. Most of their findings and "penalties" have been administrative - tighten up your policies & procedures, train your staff better and don't do it again.
And if you aren't able to comply with the intent of the GDPR, or simply can't be arsed then you're probably not a fit person to be holding people's personal data. Too many organisations have proved too often that they can't be trusted to secure PII without additional incentives. We are now in a situation where leaks of personal data can have a significant effect on real peoples lives.
If the NSA have access to any traffic logs between you and the VPN server that delay will be all of about 3 seconds... and you can bet they've got the IP address of every commercially available VPN server programmed into their "and these are particularly interesting" list.
If you were a whistleblower would you want to trust the rest of your life to KillDisk given the resources the NSA can bring to bear?
VPNs have readily identifiable endpoints so of limited value. Even Tor cannot be fully relied upon as you're never really sure who's running the nodes. The very act of using encryption, VPNs or Tor is appears to be enough to raise your profile.
With the latest revelations over XKeystore it's now clear that staying truly anonymous on the Internet when up against the resources of the NSA et al is damn difficult.
It really comes down to how hard they want to look for you. Start divulging their nasty little secrets and they'll try hard.
The EU Commission is not noted for giving up gracefully.
A more plausible interpretation is that they withdrew the case rather than get a definitive judgement against them.
An explicit judgement from the EU Court against ACTA would kill it, and anything that looked like it. Leaving the case undecided leaves a door open for typically EU dodge - put a fresh coat of polish on the turd, call it something different but leave it fundamentally unchanged and pretend you listened to "the people".
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Over-reaction much....
The ICO (the UK's supervisory authority) is one of the largest and most active SA's in the EU. If you actually take note of what they are saying, their focus is on helping people comply not punishing non-compliance. If you can get BBC iPlayer, check out Click - there's an interview with senior representative from the ICO.
They have stated they will only use fines for the the most negligent or careless cases and for repeat offenders.
If you look at their track record under the Data Protection Act, this is what they have done in the past. Most of their findings and "penalties" have been administrative - tighten up your policies & procedures, train your staff better and don't do it again.
And if you aren't able to comply with the intent of the GDPR, or simply can't be arsed then you're probably not a fit person to be holding people's personal data. Too many organisations have proved too often that they can't be trusted to secure PII without additional incentives. We are now in a situation where leaks of personal data can have a significant effect on real peoples lives.
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You are Tiffany Dehen and I claim my $5.
Either that, or you were is the same classes as her as your grasp of the case is about on the same level.
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If the NSA have access to any traffic logs between you and the VPN server that delay will be all of about 3 seconds... and you can bet they've got the IP address of every commercially available VPN server programmed into their "and these are particularly interesting" list.
If you were a whistleblower would you want to trust the rest of your life to KillDisk given the resources the NSA can bring to bear?
Re:
VPNs have readily identifiable endpoints so of limited value. Even Tor cannot be fully relied upon as you're never really sure who's running the nodes. The very act of using encryption, VPNs or Tor is appears to be enough to raise your profile.
With the latest revelations over XKeystore it's now clear that staying truly anonymous on the Internet when up against the resources of the NSA et al is damn difficult.
It really comes down to how hard they want to look for you. Start divulging their nasty little secrets and they'll try hard.
The EU Commission is not noted for giving up gracefully.
A more plausible interpretation is that they withdrew the case rather than get a definitive judgement against them.
An explicit judgement from the EU Court against ACTA would kill it, and anything that looked like it. Leaving the case undecided leaves a door open for typically EU dodge - put a fresh coat of polish on the turd, call it something different but leave it fundamentally unchanged and pretend you listened to "the people".