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SCHREMS 2.0 – the demise of Standard Contractual Clauses and Privacy Shield?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Irish Court has referred a total of 11 questions to the CJEU. As there has been no significant change since the 2015 decision (at least in the case of the SCCs), the widely held expectation amongst privacy professionals is that the CJEU will reach a finding to invalidate SCCs.

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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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Two new CJEU judgments further tighten limits of government surveillance – significant for impending UK adequacy decision and “Schrems II country assessments”

Data Protection Report

On 6 October 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union ( CJEU ) published two decisions that further define the permitted scope of governmental access to personal data. The exercise must be subject to effective judicial review, although the judgment stops short of requiring prior review.

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

I wrote about this in 2015 , specifically as it relates to organisations focusing on the security of credit cards which are one of the most easily replaceable and low-impact classes of data to have exposed. The groups.sql file Andy also mentioned is much more benign. It's 31.8MB worth of Gab group information spread over nearly 32k lines.

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

John Battelle's Searchblog

In some ways, this is foolhardy – like predicting that the election would drive 2020, only to see it overwhelmed by COVID-19. Google does in 2021 what I predicted it would in 2020. Previous predictions: Predictions 2020. 2020: How I Did. Predictions 2015. 2015: How I Did. And off we go… 1.

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