eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

We had previously written about an FTC proposed consent order that would prohibit a company from perpetual retention of personal health information. that would prohibit the company from perpetual retention of personal information—a broader category. Under the proposed consent, BetterHelp would pay $7.8 FTC File No. 2023169 (Mar.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged. This should make it easier for you to quickly find the information you want.

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IT Governance

JULY 30, 2018

Another month passes where I’m left thinking ‘I should really create a Healthcare category’. State survey leads to Vermont Health Connect email breach. Confluence Health discloses patient data breach after employee email account hacked. Patients’ health records stolen from gas station. Data breach.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. The law imposes cross-border transfer restrictions.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 21, 2019

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]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

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