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Indonesia Soon to Become the Fifth ASEAN Country to Adapt Data Privacy Laws

Security Affairs

Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. Some key provisions in the draft personal data protection law are: Personal Data. General personal data v.

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CNIL Serves Formal Notice to Microsoft to Comply with French Data Protection Law

Hunton Privacy

On July 20, 2016, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) announced that it issued a formal notice to Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) about Windows 10, ordering Microsoft to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. Such data is described as vital to the operation of Windows. Background.

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DataGuidance Hosts Webinar on Brazil’s Draft Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

On June 24, 2015, DataGuidance will host a complimentary webinar on Brazil: Towards Privacy Compliance. The speakers will discuss the Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data ( Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais ) that was issued in January 2015. The webinar will be from 10:00 a.m.

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Weekly podcast: BT, Bithumb, Islington Council and World Cup phishing

IT Governance

The unsolicited emails were sent between December 2015 and November 2016, and promoted three charities: BT’s My Donate platform, Giving Tuesday and Stand up to Cancer. Shortly afterwards, it tweeted : “We are providing compensation”, before announcing that it was giving away $10 million worth of Ethereum to its users.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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Security in the finance sector: Whose role is it anyway?

CGI

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 01:33. And, the cost of compliance is on the rise. A recent Financial Post article notes, “…analysts say that much of the hiring in the financial institutions sector has been on the risk management and compliance side. Security in the finance sector: Whose role is it anyway?

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Singapore proposes changes to cybersecurity and data protection regimes

Data Protection Report

In a bid to keep pace with advancements in the technological landscape, the Singapore Government has in recent months embarked on public consultations on its draft Cybersecurity Bill (the Cyber Bill) and its proposed amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) to update the country’s data protection regime.