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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. Money spent on improving information security controls is always appropriate – and such expenditure should have been made, regardless of the GDPR.

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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.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). Data loss can also occur when devices suffer water (or other liquid) damage.

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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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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.

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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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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. The Bill provides for her to continue to provide independent oversight, supervising our systems of data protection, but we are also significantly enhancing her powers. Where she finds criminality, she can prosecute.

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