Voting on phone-tapping bill postponed
Voting on a government bill allowing authorities to conduct phone surveillance was postponed on Wednesday after parties unanimously decided they needed more time to discuss...
data protection
Data protection fears raised over push to name ‘golden visa’ applicants
Data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Monday she is opposed to a blanket publication of the names of foreign nationals applying for naturalisation...
Doctor fined €14,000 for violating patient data on Instagram
Data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou imposed a penalty of €14,000 on a doctor who published sensitive personal information on a patient on the social media...
2018: chipping away at civil liberties
By Elias Hazou Never easy, settling on the ‘pick of the year’ requires not merely jarring one’s memory but also – maybe even harder –...
Personal data complaints up by over 100 per cent
Complaints to the personal data commissioner so far this year exceeded those in the same period of 2017 by more than 100 per cent, MPs...
Popular encrypted email standards are unsafe
European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked and they urge users to disable and...
Data protection commissioner looking into election violations
A political party has alleged their systems were hacked, data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou said on Monday. The complaint was filed to her office and...
Facebook to publish privacy principles ahead of strict EU data law
Facebook said on Monday it was publishing its privacy principles for the first time and rolling out educational videos to help users control who has...
Hospitals must digitise patients’ records, nearly 100 files missing, data watchdog says
Nicosia general hospital has lost 94 patient medical records since 2016 that are nowhere to be found, personal data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou said...
EU lawmaker says Tinder breaches data protection rules
An EU lawmaker says dating app Tinder breaches the bloc’s data protection rules because it uses personal data without explicit consent and should be investigated...
