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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. billion Internet users in the world.).

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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

It is notable that a NAIC taskforce had been evaluating industry cybersecurity standards since 2015, but following the enactment of the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, the taskforce substantially revised its planned approach to mirror the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation’s terminology and requirements?.

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

Troy Hunt

For example, there was VTech back in 2015 who leaked millions of kids' info after they registered with "smart" tablets. Thursday 11 April: Elle wears the watch to tennis and we test "relocating" her. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 6, 2019. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 6, 2019. I order one that morning.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But by year’s end folks will realize that antitrust suits are essentially kabuki, an exercise designed to go nowhere and maintain the status quo. Predictions 2019. 2019: How I did. Predictions 2015. 2015: How I Did. Everyone loses their s**t, in a good way. See you on the other side. 2020: How I Did.

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