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Can I really rely on my entire workforce to support a recovery?

IT Governance

days’ sick leave during the year 2015/16. I would expect other organisations that have been through this type of exercise to have come to a similar conclusion. One such exercise I was involved with randomly selected 50% of the employees to act as ‘lost employees’ following a life-threatening incident. Even so, it does happen.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised. million payment cards and 1.2

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. The revised Rule “recogni[zed] that the right of pretrial disclosure is subject to some limitation beyond relevance.”10

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

For example, the New York Department of Financial Services (‘NYDFS’) in March 2017 issued its Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) (‘the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation’), a groundbreaking and far-reaching regulatory regime focused on financial institutions licensed in New York, including insurance companies.

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Singapore proposes changes to cybersecurity and data protection regimes

Data Protection Report

The draft Cyber Bill was unveiled on 10 July 2017. Originally scheduled to end on 3 August 2017, the public consultation period was extended due to widespread interest in the legislation. The 11 critical sectors identified are: Energy. participate in exercises. Who is covered – Critical Information Infrastructure.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

Twelve years of making predictions doesn’t make writing them any easier, regardless of my relatively good showing in 2015. And given that more than 125,000 of you read my post summarizing how I did in 2015 (thanks Medium and LinkedIn!), Ouch, 2015 was not kind to Twitter, especially if you were a stockholder.

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Jamaica’s New Privacy Protection Bill

Data Matters

On 10 October 2017, Jamaica introduced into its House of Parliament a comprehensive Bill for privacy and data protection, entitled “An Act to Protect the Privacy of Certain Data and for Connected Matters.” If passed, the new law will be named the “Data Protection Act, 2017.” .

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