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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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GDPR – The Year in Review

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Having concluded that Google had no lead supervisory authority within the European Union, the CNIL carried out an investigation into a particular scenario (creating a Google account on the first use of an Android device). The same rule applies to the enforcement of each piece of legislation. More details in this blog post.

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Italy: Privacy law integrating the GDPR adopted, what to do?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

But it also provides that the Italian Data Protection Authority can require the implementation of additional guarantees with reference to the processing of such data and in general special categories of personal data. those performed by banks), to even the decision on simplified consent provided for the acceptance of cookies.

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GDPR is upon us: are you ready for what comes next?

Data Protection Report

The wait is finally over—this Friday the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. If you missed our previous blog articles, the European Commission released a new website with extensive guidance on GDPR implementation, together with a Fact Sheet containing Q&As on the GDPR.

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Join Our Webinar on November 16th: IGI & Preservica Address the Governance of Long-Term Digital Information

IGI

Before joining Preservica in May 2017, I advised more than 40 public and private sector organizations on good recordkeeping practices as an independent consultant, and learned firsthand about their wide-ranging retention requirements. I’d like to highlight challenges with two specific stakeholder groups, namely IT and executive leadership.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

New technologies have started innumerable economic revolutions, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil. change it substantially. This is “Hamlet” without the prince.

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