Cybersecurity and Decision Makers

4Regulations

4.1. The context

Fifty years ago, we would not have accepted that our mail should be opened, but an email can be considered a postcard sent without an envelope. We would have reacted strongly if our movements had been known, our expenses tracked, our readings and purchases studied by third parties.

90% of the data produced worldwide have been produced in the last two years.

The main data producers are the digital platforms of companies and connected objects: smartphones, pacemakers, elevators, refrigerators or breast pumps.

Personal data (credit cards, social security number, email address, etc.) have a value. Personal data is of interest to companies, the State and hackers. The rapid evolution of the digitization of services and globalization has created a new data-based economy: the more data a company collects about its customers, the more services or products it can offer them.

In return for their personal information, given free of charge to site publishers, social networks, taxi or apartment platforms, search engines or online distribution sites, new challenges for the protection of personal data have emerged.

Technologies allow both private companies and public authorities to use personal data. Increasingly, individuals are making information about themselves publicly and globally accessible, most of the time without being aware of the use of such data for commercial, political, social or criminal purposes.

This is a major upheaval in society and global ...