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NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal

Adam Levin

Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he The program was initially started without court authorization under President George W.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May.

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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Average cost of cyber crime rises to £10.3 million

IT Governance

There has been a similar jump in the number of incidents organisations experience, with an 11% increase year-on-year and a 67% increase between 2013 and 2018. The study found that the number of organisations that reported a ransomware attack increased by 15% between 2017 and 2018, and the average cost rose by 21%.

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NARA and Obama Foundation Sign a Digitization Memorandum of Understanding

Archives Blogs

President Barack Obama Works at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, 10/11/2013. The digitization plan was first outlined in May 2017, and this MOU is the first agreement coming out of the Letter of Intent signed in September 2018. The Foundation will select the vendor, with NARA approval, and oversee the contract.

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. 2018-493 and the Ordinance, encompasses 128 new articles.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Supreme Court held that: The earlier judgments of the High Court and Court of Appeal had misunderstood the principles governing vicarious liability. In November 2013, an aggrieved Morrisons employee, Andrew Skelton, downloaded payroll data he was entrusted with at work onto a personal USB stick. Background.