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Reflecting on APAC Data Protection and Cyber-security Highlights for 2019 (and what lies ahead!)

Data Protection Report

2019 saw continued growth and change in data protection and cyber-security across the Asia-Pacific. In addition, 2019 saw regulators publishing findings in respect of some of the largest data incidents of 2018. Personal Data Protection Act was passed with a 12 month grace period (until May 2020). million individuals.

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Trend Micro rogue employee sold customer data to tech support scammers

Security Affairs

In August 2019, the security firm was informed that some of their customers were receiving tech support scam phone calls. “In early August 2019, Trend Micro became aware that some of our consumer customers running our home security solution had been receiving scam calls by criminals impersonating Trend Micro support personnel.”

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The death of duplicate data spending

Collibra

For example, marketers spent over $20 billion worldwide on third-party data in 2019 to acquire new customers and enrich the information about existing customers. Lack of a well-defined data sharing policy also adds to the trouble, because teams cannot quickly locate and access relevant data. External data is a big market today.

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“What’s Cooking” in Sacramento: CCPA’s “Employee Exception” Bill is Amended; “Publicly Available Information” Exception is Broadened, and Consumer Access Rights are Clarified

Data Protection Report

As America prepares for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, the California legislature continues to work on amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as it races to get modifications passed through the state legislature before it adjourns for the 2019 calendar year. individual contractors from the CCPA definition of “consumers.”

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ICO Publishes Final Version of Its Age Appropriate Design Code

Hunton Privacy

It applies to providers of information services likely to be accessed by children in the UK, including applications, programs, websites, social media platforms, messaging services, games, community environments and connected toys and devices, where these offerings involve the processing of personal data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

They accessed 41.5 million customers’ data having gained access via a vulnerability in Hathaway’s Laravel web application framework. million individuals affected HealthEC LLC, a health technology company, has announced that it suffered a data breach in July 2023, in which systems were accessed and files were copied.

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State of the Union: CCPA and Beyond in 2020

Data Protection Report

A few companies simply included CCPA’s broad definition of sale in the privacy policy and stated that under CCPA’s definition, “a sale may or may not have occurred.”. access, deletion, or opt-out) and a few companies seem to use the same tool, third party, and/or infrastructure for GDPR requests. email, phone, mail).

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