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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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EU : New SCCs published

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The New SCCs repeal the existing SCCs (dating from 2001, 2004 and 2010) and aim to address the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (“ GDPR ”) and the decision of the European Court of Justice (“ CJEU ”) in Schrems II. Recognise that the New SCCs contain Article 28 GDPR compliant terms.

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Weekly podcast: Uber, Tether, Bitcoin and Western Union

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 24 November 2017. And we all know how much they’ll be when the GDPR comes into effect next May.). Here are this week’s stories. Deliberately concealing breaches from regulators and citizens could attract higher fines for companies.” (And Well, that’ll do for this week.

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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)? Unveiled in 2004, the PCI DSS is the result of a collaboration between the major credit card brands (American Express, Discover, JCB, Mastercard and Visa). The EU’s GDPR.

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European Data Protection Supervisor Publishes Priorities for 2016

Hunton Privacy

While an agreement has been reached on the data protection reform “package,” entailing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the Directive for data protection in the police and justice sectors, the EDPS will continue to support European institutions in their process to create a coherent data protection framework in Europe.