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The Year of the GDPR: 2018’s Most Famous Privacy Regulation in Review To the extent that 260-page regulations can ever be said to be “famous,” Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment in limelight in 2018. When it came into force on May 25, it was heralded by a flurry of emails from tech companies, desperate to re-establish their absolutely bona-fide relationships with your email address before the regulations’ stricter rules around user consent came into force. The barely-concealed panic in some corners led to editorials , memes , and even a meditation app that marketed itself (presumably in compliance with the GDPR) by offering to lull its users to sleep with spoken excerpts from the law. Did the GDPR live up to the year’s hype, good or bad? As Premier Zhou Enlai didn’t quite say about the French Revolution, it’s too early to say. There are plenty of ways that the GDPR can help with defending privacy online , but the real proof of the GDPR’...

Pushing Back Against Backdoors: 2018 Year in Review This wasn’t a great year for those of us whose job it is to defend the use of encryption. In the United States, we heard law enforcement officials go on about the same “ going dark ” problem they’ve been citing since the late 90s, but even after all these years, they still can’t get basic facts straight. The National Academy of Sciences was entirely (and unsurprisingly) unhelpful. And in the courts, there was at least some action surrounding encryption, but we don’t know exactly what. The real movement happened on the other side of the Pacific, so we’ll start there.  The Land Down Under—Or the Upside Down? Long-time readers of this blog will know Australia’s fraught history with attempts to regulate encryption…and math. In mid-2017, then- Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull  said: “The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.” He made this laughable claim ...