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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. Healthcare organizations can face steep penalties and serious damage to their reputation if they don’t meet the HIPAA’s requirements.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Big Data Hub

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. Complex analytical queries atop huge datasets on the mainframe can eat up compute budgets and take hours or days to run.

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

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This include that data controllers must not use personal means of communications, including postal and electronic addresses, of the data subject in order to sent promotional or awareness materials without first obtaining the consent of the data subject, and providing the data subject with a mechanism to opt out.

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FRANCE: NEW GUIDELINES FOR COOKIES AND AN ACTION PLAN FOR ONLINE TARGETED ADVERTISING

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The new guidelines apply to all types of operations aiming to gain access through electronic transmission to information stored on the subscriber or user terminal or to store information in such terminal. The use of complex technical or legal terms does not meet the requirement of prior information.

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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

The new CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance is designed to meet both actual, mandatory EU legal personal data protection requirements (i.e., The new CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance is designed to meet both actual, mandatory EU legal personal data protection requirements (i.e.,

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What is Employee Monitoring? Full Guide to Getting It Right

eSecurity Planet

These can come in a variety of forms we’ll discuss in more detail below, but the most common in a modern office setting is software monitoring, where a piece of software is installed onto employees’ computers, which can then track things such as web activity. The most obvious is performance tracking. In short, the results are mixed.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Courts have frequently emphasized privacy concerns in these cases, where a party sought direct access to an opposing party’s computer systems under Rule 34(a)(1), which allows parties “to inspect, copy, test or sample. any designated tangible things.”36 For example, in John B.

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