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UK Government and the Dubai International Financial Centre Issue Joint Statement on Data Bridge

Hunton Privacy

On December 15, 2022, the UK government and the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (“DIFC”) issued a joint statement on the shared commitment to deepening the UK-DIFC data partnership. the pursuit of a closer UK-DIFC partnership on data flows as a way of realizing untapped economic growth.”.

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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. Awareness events foster to shape human attitude, enhance a positive culture against cyber threats, and educate businesses and people about protective measures they can take to secure their sensitive personal data: Enable MFA.

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EU : New SCCs published

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Today, the European Commission published the final Implementing Decision on standard contractual clauses (“ New SCCs ”) for the transfer of personal data to third countries. use by non-EU established data exporters to the extent the processing is subject to the GDPR pursuant to the extraterritorial reach of Article 3(2) GDPR.

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European Parliament Announces New European Data Protection Supervisor

Hunton Privacy

Both are well-known figures in the European data protection circles. He will replace Peter Hustinx, who has been the EDPS since 2004. Prior to joining the EDPS, Buttarelli spent 12 years with the Italian Data Protection Authority. Buttarelli is the current Assistant Supervisor, a position he has held since 2009.

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South Korea Enacts Comprehensive Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

As reported in BNA’s Privacy Law Watch , on March 29, 2011, South Korea’s president approved the Act on the Protection of Personal Data. South Korea first attempted to enact a comprehensive privacy law in 2004; however, for the past seven years, omnibus privacy bills sponsored by the government and lawmakers have stalled in Parliament.

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Foreign Couple Found Guilty of Illegal Collection of Personal Information in Shanghai

Hunton Privacy

Criminal Law that established criminal penalties for improper sales, provision and collection of personal data. We also have reported on criminal sentences in cases involving the sale of personal data. According to Chinese press reports, the defendants established a company in Hong Kong called ChinaWhys Co.,

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Weekly podcast: Uber, Tether, Bitcoin and Western Union

IT Governance

This week, we discuss Uber’s cover-up of a 2016 breach that compromised 57 million drivers’ and customers’ personal information, the theft of almost $31 million worth of USDT and more than €100,000 worth of Bitcoin, and good news for victims of Western Union transfer scams. Here are this week’s stories.