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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. It once might have been said that perfect compliance with GDPR generally meant being mostly compliant with most privacy laws if applied globally. The rule holds generally, too.

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Connecticut Strengthens Data Breach Notification Requirements and the Uniform Law Commission Approves and Recommends Comprehensive and Uniform State Privacy Legislation

Data Matters

As stated in the Attorney Generals Press Release, the Act includes provisions on notification of data breaches to impacted individuals and regulators and changes the former notification deadline for “individuals and the Office of the Attorney General…from 90 days to 60 days, which is in line with recent amendments passed in other states.”.

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

Definition and Purpose of a Records Retention Schedule. These records are typically organized by grouping them by function or department and then described as either an individual record or grouped together into a record category. 8 This is the GDPR definition and other countries have similar broad definitions of personal data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Among those affected was SAP SE.

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CCPA Marches On: California Attorney General Proposes Further Revisions to CCPA Regulations, Industry Pleads for Enforcement Delay Amid COVID-19 Crisis

Data Matters

On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General (“AG”) released the third turn of proposed California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) regulations. Language from an earlier draft that prompted widespread use of granular charts to repeatedly reiterate information per category of personal information has not made a reappearance.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. While the math remains the same, unique cryptographic keys generate unique ciphertext. Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user.

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U.S. states pass data protection laws on the heels of the GDPR

Data Protection Report

states have recently introduced and passed legislation to expand data breach notification rules and to mirror some of the protections provided by Europe’s newly enacted General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Violations of the law may be enforced by the state’s attorney general. Several U.S. Below are the key takeaways from U.S.

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