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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

Removing the UK from the decision-making structures of the EU should also result in the UK Government feeling able to update other privacy legislation, such as the outdated Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, without having to delay for years and years until EU countries managed to reach a political consensus on the way ahead.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

A prime example is the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity frameworks , a comprehensive cyber hygiene roadmap applicable to businesses of all sizes and in all industries The trouble is the NIST guidelines are voluntary. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds common law duty for employers extends to protecting sensitive employee information

Data Protection Report

UPMC was filed by a group of employees of the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (“UPMC”), alleging a failure in data security resulted in a data breach and the theft of the personal and financial information of UPMC’s 62,000 employees. UPMC, 2018 Pa. LEXIS 6072199 (Pa.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. However, article 80(2) contains a provision that the Government have chosen not to implement, under which consumer groups that operate in the privacy field can act on behalf of data subjects without a particular complainant.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.