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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

No longer might UK privacy pros feel obliged to wait for the publication of weirdly worded EDPB opinions. Enormous amounts of money have been spent in a belated acknowledgement of, in many cases, decades of under investment on privacy issues. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations. Was such a fine really appropriate?

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. It’s all about creating the perfect balance between optimal medical services while upholding patient privacy. This breach of privacy could harm the patient and cause consequences for the hospital.

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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

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

For example, an unlawful transfer of personal data outside of KSA can result in a criminal conviction and imprisonment. The PDPL is a law that applies on a national level and so, unlike other KSA sector specific laws dealing with privacy laws to date, the PDPL will apply to all sectors (with certain possible exceptions, discussed below).

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

Data Protection Report

Rather, the duty arises under the common law rule that when an actor takes an affirmative action, that actor must exercise reasonable care to protect others from an unreasonable risk of harm from such act. The duty is one to exercise reasonable care, which may be different depending on the size and resources of a particular company.

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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. Noble Lords will be familiar with the role of the Information Commissioner, whose role is to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

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