You've been happily using free email for years, and haven't thought much about it. You've been...
Plus-addressing lets you create an alias on the fly
Email aliases are great - they help organize emails, reduce spam and protect our identity. But...
Email Aliases for Privacy
Do you use email aliases? Aliases are a great tool that can help protect your identity, reduce...
The Grindr case illustrates how Norwegian authorities fight against misuse of personal information
Oslo District Court has found Grindr’s sharing of personal data illegal as a result of the...
Privacy Matters – How Our Personal Data Is Used
When we go online or use apps, we are being tracked. Companies collect our personal data by...
Be privacy concerned when using ChatGPT
This is blog post #18 in our series on the GDPR. “Don’t tell anything to a chatbot you want to...
Privacy, GDPR, and Google Analytics – Revisited
This is blog post #17 in our series on the GDPR. Summary of the case In our blog post on 23...
On the EU-US data transfer problem
This is blog post #16 in our series on the GDPR. At Runbox we are always concerned about data...
Privacy, GDPR, and Google Analytics
This is blog post #15 in our series on the GDPR. Four European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs)...
The Norwegian Consumer Council’s voice is heard worldwide
The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) has taken a strong position against commercial surveillance...
Out of Control: Apps that share personal data revealed by the Norwegian Consumer Council
“If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product”. This is a common saying when...
The Norwegian COVID-19 contact tracing app is banned by the Data Protection Authority
GDPR in the Wake of COVID Spread: Privacy under Pressure - Part 2 Our previous blog post in this...
GDPR in the Wake of COVID-19: Privacy Under Pressure
Tech companies all over the world are rushing to support health authorities in combating the...
GDPR implementation part 8: “Personal data” in the EU and the US is not the same
We usually think of “personal data” as a term that contains for instance a person’s full name,...
GDPR implementation part 7: Information and Tools for Implementation of Users’ Rights
One of the main objectives for the European Union (EU) when they developed the replacement for the...
GDPR implementation part 6: Access Control and Permissions
In part 3 of this blog series we described how we mapped the “world” of our operations, including...
GDPR implementation part 5: Risk Assessment and Gap Analysis
In previous posts in this blog series we have referred to our main planning document, Rules and...
GDPR implementation part 3: Mapping our “world”
This is the third post in our series on Runbox' GDPR implementation. After having structured our...
Data Privacy Day – Runbox enforces strong Privacy Policy
January 28th is Data Privacy Day, and was initiated by the Council of Europe in 2007. Since then,...
“Drop Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud: Norwegian challenger clearly best on privacy”
Runbox is hailed in a major Norwegian news outlet for providing superior privacy protection. The...
New Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in effect
As announced one month ago, our new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy implementing the European...