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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised. Excessive data collection must be avoided.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The data is published after Medibank reportedly declines to pay a US$10 million ransom demand.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.