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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

Some UK organisations will inevitably have to follow all the EU’s data protection rules because they will continue to process the personal data of individuals in the EU. Organisations have also spent many hours working out what legal basis each business process should rely on when personal data is processed.

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

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR. Direct marketing.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Reminding employees to exercise caution and to back up information wherever possible will mitigate this risk. Data loss can also occur when devices suffer water (or other liquid) damage. Computer viruses. That’s because, as the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) explains , data breaches encompass all events that.

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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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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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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 importance of data protection cannot be overstated in the age of ever-expanding technologies and digital advances.

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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. What are the major changes? (i) ii) F rom soft opt-in to active consent.

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