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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

So in 2004, the President of the United States designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. GDPR and other data protection regulations help broaden our awareness about data privacy and make us more suspicious when it comes to protecting personal data and digital services.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.”

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.”

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How data breaches are affecting the retail industry

IT Governance

What steps will the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) take to ensure organisations comply with the recently enforced GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. Encrypt transmission of cardholder data cross open, public networks. The EU’s GDPR.

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Predictions 2019: Stay Stoney, My Friends.

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.