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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. As indicated in the paragraph quoted above, the company collected some very sensitive personal information.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In a recent study , IDC predicted the global datasphere will more than double in size from 2022 to 2026, and that 80% of that data will be unstructured. Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable.

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China: Navigating China Episode 19: China’s new Data Security Law: what multinational businesses need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The speed of its passing has left multinational businesses scrabbling to understand the key compliance obligations. While many of the practical compliance steps will be detailed in measures and guidelines to be published over the coming weeks and months, here’s what we already know: 1.