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EU Parliament and Council of the EU Reach Agreement on Data Governance Act

Hunton Privacy

The EU Data Governance Act is intended to foster the availability of data by increasing trust in data intermediaries and strengthening data sharing across the EU and between sectors. It is part of the European Strategy for Data , which is aimed at putting the EU at the forefront of our increasingly data-driven society.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. Cyber attack on Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of staff and students (16,000).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Thailand’s Department of Older Persons breached, exposing almost 20 millio n personal data records The Department of Older Persons, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, suffered a data breach in which 19,718,687 rows or personal data was exposed.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 TB of data, including engineering drawings, prints, schematics, patents, source code, supplier and vendor information, accounting data, and more. Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

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The Economy of Things: the next value lever for telcos

IBM Big Data Hub

Register for our LinkedIn Live event on telcos and the Economy of Things The Economy of Things has arrived The EoT is enabled by artificial intelligence, data, IoT and blockchain, bringing liquidity to the IoT. Telcos can also play the role of data providers as well as data marketplace and brokerage operators within the ecosystem.

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German Government Asks Internet Companies to Develop Self-Regulatory Code for Geo Data Services and Proposes Draft Law

Hunton Privacy

On September 20, 2010, the German government under the leadership of the Federal Minister of the Interior held a summit on “Digitization of Cities and States – Opportunities and Limits of Private and Public Geo Data Services.” This includes the deletion of all stored data to the extent it constitutes personal data.