Facebook sparks fresh privacy concerns
Facebook is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after allegations of misleading and deceiving the public. Seven years after the...
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Cyprus has dealt with 740 GDPR complaints since regulation enforced
Cyprus has dealt with 740 complaints related to data protection in the two years since the GDPR regulation came into force and has issued some...
Coronavirus: Education minister seeks to allay data protection fears
Education minister Prodromos Prodromou on Wednesday said no rights had been violated in the implementation of the ministry’s distance learning programme. He was speaking after...
CCTV: a question of privacy
CCTV cameras in public places are a fact of life in the UK. Not so in Cyprus. Is that about to change? By Elias Hazou...
‘Big Brother’ not quite here yet, new survey shows
Cyprus ranks average in a new survey on privacy protection and the state of surveillance, scoring a 3.0 overall for having ‘some safeguards but with...
Privacy concerns after video of verbal racist attack goes viral (Updated)
Police said on Monday they were examining video evidence and CCTV footage of a verbal racist attack by three Greek Cypriot women against a Russian...
Police association say missing persons cases were hindered by data restrictions (Updated)
The police association on Thursday rebuffed criticism over its members’ handling of a missing person’s case, which ended up being murder, possibly the work of...
Jeweller’s shop fined for training CCTV cameras on neighbouring cafe
A fine of €500 for breaching personal data laws was imposed on a jeweller’s shop for installing cameras which were able to record the movement...
Hospital fined €5,000 for loss of patient file
A fine of €5,000 was imposed on the Makarios Children’s Hospital in Nicosia for the loss of a patient’s file, according to a decision of...
Supreme Court reserves judgment in Eleni Loizidou emails case
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would reserve its ruling to the appeal filed by daily Politis against an injunction forbidding it from...
Woman wins right to religious privacy from state’s prying eyes
By Elias Hazou A female dentist has become the first Cypriot citizen to have had removed from state records any reference to her religious creed....
Inundated with messages asking you ‘stay in touch’? Here’s why
By Andria Kades A new EU regulation, the reason members of the public have been receiving a slew of emails and text messages recently, comes...
Audit boss clashes with ombudswoman
By Andria Kades The Ombduswoman’s refusal to grant Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides full access to the records of her office has prompted a new row playing...
The art of predicting – a human vs machine battle?
Forecasting is a tricky business, but Nesta isn’t backing down from the human-versus-machine battle. Forecasting is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible humans...
Privacy watchdog calls on CFA to stop collecting personal data
Personal Data Commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nicolaidou in an interim decision issued on Tuesday called on the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) to temporarily cease being the sole...
MPs discuss urgent need to update drone use rules
The need to update legislation regulating the use of drones was discussed by the House legal committee on Wednesday. In statements after the end of...
There can be no control without access to files, audit boss says
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Sunday hit out at an article in Politis asking ‘who controls the controller?’, saying the report was unethical and without substance....
Woman faces deportation from UAE for checking husband’s phone
A woman was fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for breaching her husband’s privacy by checking his cell phone to...
A national balancing act: Security of a country and privacy of the individual”
In 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” The concept...
CSO cannot meet fan-card deadline
By Constantinos Psillides There is no way the Cyprus Sports Organisation (CSO) can meet the January 2015 deadline set by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou, for...