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European rulings on the use of Google Analytics and how it may affect your business

Data Protection Report

Recent decisions out of the EU will impact the use of Google Analytics and similar non-European analytics services when targeting EU individuals, with the potential to put many organizations at risk of receiving GDPR fines. At issue was the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US through the use of Google Analytics.

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ITALY: the Garante aligns with CNIL and DSB holding that the use of Google Analytics leads to unlawful transfer of Personal Data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Italian privacy authority, the Garante, deemed that the use of Google Analytics results in unlawful transfers of personal data to the United States in violation of the principles outlined in the Schrems II ruling. The main point contested is that Google LLC qualifies as an “ electronic communications service provider ” under 50 U.S.

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The Clock To Q-Day Is Ticking: InfoSec Global and Thales Provide Collaborative Path to Quantum Readiness

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Vladimir Soukharev, InfoSec Global The advent of quantum computers poses a substantial threat to various industries due to their potential to compromise standard encryption methods that protect global data, communications, and transactions. This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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Austrian DPA Finds Data Transfers Resulting from Analytics Cookie Use to Be in Violation of GDPR Data Transfer Requirements

Hunton Privacy

The Austrian DPA ruled that the use of Google Analytics cookies by the website operator violates both Chapter V of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which establishes rules on international data transfers, and the Schrems II judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Background. Austrian DPA’s Decision.

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Saudi Ministry exposed sensitive data for 15 months

Security Affairs

They could try to encrypt critical government data, demanding a ransom for its release or threatening to leak sensitive information publicly,” our researchers said. file leaked several types of database credentials, mail credentials, and data encryption keys. The file has since been closed and is no longer accessible to the public.

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Three Easy Ways to Improve DevSecOps with Thales and Red Hat

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

CSM also enables comprehensive secrets management including static secrets, dynamic secrets, secrets rotation, SSH keys management, auditing and analytics, across DevOps and hybrid multi-cloud environments, via a scalable as-a-service deployment. Thales and our Technology Partners, such as Red Hat , are proud to offer such solutions.

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection. Vulnerabilities in encryption techniques, on the other hand, or bad key management policies, might expose data to prospective intrusions. Attackers may try to exploit these flaws to decode and access sensitive data.

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