From traffic congestion reduction to utility consumption improvement, care services optimization, new environmental and circular economy perspective, smart cities promise to enhance our lives in almost any aspects. Who hasn’t dreamt of such a utopia? For every improvement in the city, though, there are significant risks for privacy that if…

Dark Patterns in Action: Privacy-by-design or Deceived-by-design? Enlightenment in Delusion The trust in the Internet has been lost. Yet we use technology more than ever before. Every single day, millions of applications are being downloaded and fed by personal data. Whoever knows what it is being used for. We have been promised to be protected. We have heard “privacy-by-design” many…

EU-US Privacy Shield Privacy Shield & Swiss-US Privacy Shield updates as per November 2020 Today, transatlantic personal data transfers have become common practice. Under the GDPR though, these transfers are subject to numerous provisions, in particular to ensure that the data will benefit from adequate protection, even when being transferred…

Digital Ethics DNA: still unknown. Technology made it possible to have the world at a fingerprint. As a result, every day, millions of users leave their marks in the digital world, making it possible for companies to frame them into predictive, insightful “little boxes”. The question of whether it is for good or not will…

Investing in personal data-fueled businesses is undoubtedly attractive and opens-up new horizons for achieving high ROI in short period of time. Yet it isn’t free of risks. We summarised in the following 3-question checklist what every investor in this sector must confirm prior to investing. In a world awash with…

Data Residency: where the home for your data is. Data Localization: a business choice or a legal obligation? We live in a world where information can travel across borders within a heartbeat. Yet, if it can be rendered anytime anywhere, it has to be stored somewhere at some point. Finding…

Embedding privacy into software apps Since the adoption of the GDPR, we all expect developers to embed privacy into existing and forthcoming software applications. But ask a thousand people to define what privacy is and you’ll get a thousand different answers. For some, privacy is nothing more than secrecy. For others, it is everything related…

By now, you’ve probably all heard that Pryv.io, the Swiss-made personal data & consent data management solution, is available Open Source. But what does this mean for your company exactly? In this article, we will outline the benefits of using open source software to support your development and how Open…

The release of Open Pryv.io delivers a free, full production, easy-to-install open-source solution for the collection and management of sensitive personal and health data. Lausanne, Switzerland, June 9th, 2020 — Today, Pryv SA, the leading Swiss provider of personal data and privacy management software announced the open-source release of Open…