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Plaintiff is Able to Get Some Subpoenas for Personal Data Quashed, But Not All: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

To the extent these records mirror the electronic files found on the vessel’s computer and corroborate the other crewman’s statements, they are of vital importance to defendants’ theory of the case.

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Draft Released in the Philippines Implementing Rules for the Data Privacy Act

Hunton Privacy

Under the IRR, the processing of personal data has to adhere to the principles of transparency, legitimate purpose and proportionality. The IRR defines personal data as personal information, sensitive information and privileged information. The IRR stipulates general principles for data sharing.

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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

A QUESTION OF CONNECTIVITY They say information is at everyone’s fingertips because of computers and the internet. However, Patrick points out that it’s only really at your fingertips if you can afford the cost of internet access at home or the cost of having a smartphone or a computer. Today, the issue is more complicated.

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If You’re a Cloud Provider or Consumer, Consider These Guidelines on How to Conduct Yourself in Europe: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

While we were preparing to eat turkey and stuff ourselves with various goodies last week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) provided an important guideline for compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With the introduction of GDPR, data protection compliance becomes increasingly risk-based.

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Weekly podcast: NCSC and Kaspersky, parliamentary passwords and macOS High Sierra (again)

IT Governance

While the NCSC is right to be concerned about Russian cybercrime, another security threat to Westminster has garnered considerable media coverage this week: it’s become clear that members of parliament need to be much better educated about basic security practices. Including interns on exchange programmes.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

I am a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. This was not a minor vulnerability; the computer press at the time called it "critical." It confessed to another data leak in January 2017.

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Tending Your Garden: Why Information Governance Should be an Ongoing Process in Your Organization: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Jim’s post below highlights the importance of a strong information governance program and how creation of a data map can be a key component to that IG program. But he told me that they no longer had access to a lot of the maps, because they had recently upgraded their computers, and the new machines couldn’t read the old files.