Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

The PiS government admitted having used the spyware, but pointed out the Pegasus was never used against political opponents. At the time, the Polish Major was working on the opposition’s campaign for elections to the Senate. “We

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protect funding for public libraries at risk In this election year it is more important than ever to bring libraries into the public and political spotlight as central government cuts council budgets across the country. The Libraries at Risk Monitor builds on the Know your Rights campaign, which has been running since 2023.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2015

Given the transparency and manner in which people can participate in elections for leaders of political parties, perhaps the time is ripe for a larger group of people to be involved in selecting public officials who will be involved in determining information rights enforcement strategies.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 23, 2023

US citizens currently elect people for terms ranging from two to six years. I brought together fifty people from around the world: political scientists, economists, law professors, AI experts, activists, government officials, historians, science fiction writers and more. Liquid democracy does away with elections altogether.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We start by differentiating between two types of knowledge that societies use in their political systems. The first is common political knowledge, which is the body of information that people in a society broadly agree on. These two forms of government have incompatible needs for common and contested political knowledge.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Then, once in a while, the AI might post something relevant to a political issue, maybe an article about a healthcare worker having an allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, with worried commentary. Or maybe it might offer its developer’s opinions about a recent election, or racial justice, or any other polarizing subject.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The attackers were spreading fabricated content, including falsified news articles, quotes, correspondence, and other documents designed to appear as coming from military officials and political figures in the target countries.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

s 2019 General Election manifesto to secure the long-term future of public libraries. This is a real win for CILIP, our partners at the EveryLibrary Institute and for everyone that has been campaigning to raise libraries up the political agenda. CILIP welcomes Labour Party Manifesto commitment to libraries. CILIP, the UK?s

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The computer network of Australian Parliament was hacked earlier this year, and hackers exfiltrated data from the computers of several elected officials. In September, Australia’s intelligence announced it has evidence that the attacks that hit its parliament and political parties were orchestrated by China.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

“This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure,” he said.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

The term “ Hybrid warfare ” refers to a military strategy which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare and foreign electoral intervention. General Milley said. director general for defence policy.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 9, 2023

On 4 May 2023, European Court of Justice (“ CJEU ”) delivered its judgment regarding the interpretation of Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“ GDPR ”). From one of these extrapolations, Österreichische Post determined that the data subject had a high affinity with one of the political parties.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

More generally, chatbots will likely become the interface through which we interact with all sorts of computerized processes—an AI that responds to our style of language, every nuance of emotion, even tone of voice. Generally, these recommendations result in blander, more predictable prose.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Talks had previously stalled over how to regulate AI trained on large amounts of data and able to perform a wide range of functions, referred to as ‘foundation models’ or ‘general purpose AI’. These rules cover the models on which these systems are based, referred to as general purpose AI models or ‘foundation models’.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

” According to Georgia’s Interpress news agency, the hackers targeted the websites for Georgia’s general jurisdiction courts, government agencies, NGOs and media outlets. Shortly after the election, Saakashvili left Georgia. Local authorities immediately launched an investigation into the cyber attacks.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 22, 2019

his week’s episode, #146: we speak with the researchers behind a new analysis of more than 40 political parties in the US and Europe showing that many suffer from poor cyber security. Whether or not they will succeed depends, in part, on the cyber security of political parties in the U.S. But security technology is stuck in the past.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 22, 2019

his week’s episode, #146: we speak with the researchers behind a new analysis of more than 40 political parties in the US and Europe showing that many suffer from poor cyber security. Whether or not they will succeed depends, in part, on the cyber security of political parties in the U.S. But security technology is stuck in the past.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Australia ‘s intelligence is sure that China is behind the cyberattacks that hit its parliament and political parties, but decided to not publicly accuse it. According to the Reuters agency, Australia’s intelligence has evidence that the attacks that hit its parliament and political parties were orchestrated by China.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

I know very well the dynamics of the public Health and I believe that Hippocrates is also a victim of the politics. They should all follow our example, and that should do anything that could reveal disgusting abuses that politics do, as you say said before. Let me tell you that in this case, you made a political choice.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

level and the current political context, including the upcoming U.S. elections, may delay the process. With respect to the possibility of a new and strengthened framework allowing transfers of personal data between the EEA and the U.S.,

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The ICO issued its Monetary Penalty Notice (“MPN”) against Facebook on October 24, 2018, following an investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns. However, we look forward to continuing to cooperate with the ICO’s wider and ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.”.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Security procedures had “slowed down” some election campaign activities, but the party believes that no sensitive data was compromised. With cyber threats playing such a big role in business and politics these days, it’s concerning that the Labour Party’s assessment of this incident was off the mark. What happened? “It

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 1, 2020

For the month of April, the Scottish Political Archive is, along with our colleagues in the University Archives, taking part in ARA Scotland’s #Archive30 Twitter campaign which will see us tweeting about a daily theme for the whole month – or giving it our best, anyway!

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Notably, 2019 was the year of the Belgian DPA’s first fines under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the release of the Belgian DPA’s 2019-2025 Strategic Plan. The majority of the cases focused on the functioning of cities and municipalities, the use of CCTV cameras and political elections.

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This new research shows that local compliance with FOI laws is inadequate, subject to manipulation, and influenced by legal and political factors. FOI legislation generally grants the public the right to demand access to information held by governmental and municipal bodies. reference to the FOI laws) or a moral appeal (i.e.,

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On 6 October 2022, Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his opinion in UI v Österreichische Post AG ( Case C?300/21) The processing took place in order to classify target groups for political and election purposes. Authors: David Cook, Benjamin Fellows and Heba Khalid. Decision following referral.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 22, 2018

The Bill implements Ireland’s national legislation in areas where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) provides a margin of maneuver to Member States, and specifies the investigative and enforcement powers of the Irish Data Protection Commission.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 11, 2020

Because of COVID-19 social distancing measures in place in California and the huge number of signatures required, the announcement surprised many political observers. ” County election officials and the secretary of state will now begin the process of reporting and verifying the signatures, which may last through June 25th.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The draft bill accedes to almost all rights of data subjects as per the GDPR as well as the general regulations in regards to personal data processing. General personal data v. In line with GDPR’s concept of sensitive personal data, the bill clearly differentiates between general personal data and specific personal data.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Rarely has it been more important that all political parties respect the role of evidence and accountability in public life. raising the spectre of state-sponsored misinformation and the deliberate undermining of truth and accountability which should have no place in British politics. including political Parties. Your Party?s

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the business community takes stock of (and impatiently waits for) 2020 election results, it should place particular significance on the passage of Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) by about a 12 percent margin. Finally, the CPRA limits the ability of the legislature to amend the law.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

More generally, technologists need to understand the policy ramifications of their work. There's a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley that technology is politically neutral. The defining political question of the 20th century was: "What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?"

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 17, 2019

I should probably put in a disclaimer that this is not a political post – I would write about this regarding which political party this involved. It just so happens that the latest high-profile redaction flub happens to be tied to the Russia investigation and Paul Manafort.

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Archives Blogs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

and Panamanian foreign relations: The Panama Canal: Riots, Treaties, Elections, and a Little Military Madness, 1959 – 1973. Government in general, and the imperialistic image associated with U.S. The National Declassification Center’s newest special project release concerns U.S. foreign policy since the Canal was built.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

More generally, technologists need to understand the policy ramifications of their work. There's a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley that technology is politically neutral. The defining political question of the 20th century was: "What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?"

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 9, 2020

Claude Pepper was elected to the United States Senate seven years later. With his political career ended for a time in late 1950, Pepper would be out of politics until he ran for and won a US House seat in 1962. This brief period outside of national politics did nothing to slow him down, however.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

Investigators from Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) have found that Indonesia is increasingly being targeted by cyber-threat actors who have staged attacks that pose significant long-term risks to the integrity of the country’s elections. One particularly alarming breach tracked by HUNTER analysts led to the leak of 6.8

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