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A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data

The Guardian Data Protection

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog.

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Personal data protection in the time of coronavirus (Covid-19)

Data Protection Report

Outbreak of the coronavirus and personal data privacy. There have been several data breach incidents which have given rise to concerns over privacy and potential discrimination against people from Wuhan and Hubei Province. Highlights of the CAC Circular.

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How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. To meet the challenges of modern perimeterless, data-driven enterprises, it’s no longer enough to lock down the network. The security must be embedded with the data wherever it travels. Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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Making the Case for Encryption in the Era of Digital Transformation – Highlights from our Annual Data Threat Report

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Today, it’s almost impossible to do business of any kind without some sensitive data being exchanged, managed or stored in the cloud or on servers with an outgoing connection to the web. In fact, 71% of organizations are using sensitive data in the cloud. The importance of encryption cannot be overstated.

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ICO Publishes Summary of Responses to its Big Data Report

Hunton Privacy

On April 10, 2015, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published a summary of the feedback received from its July 28, 2014 report on Big Data and Data Protection (the “Report”). Assessing the impacts and benefits of big data analytics is important and plays a critical role in determining whether processing is fair.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Demirkapi discovered he could utilize the credit bureau’s API to retrieve the full credit history of just about anyone at all; he needed only to type in a name, address and date of birth — personal data that’s trivial to get. And to produce signals useful to security teams, you need to analyze this data, in real time.”.

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