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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

. “The ferocity of cyber criminals to take advantage of COVID-19 uncertainties by preying on small businesses is disturbing,” said Andrew LaMarca , who leads the global high-risk and fraud team at Dun & Bradstreet. For the past several months, Milwaukee, Wisc. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS. .”

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German DPAs Address a Wide Range of Topics at Annual Conference and Adopt Resolutions

Hunton Privacy

The Conference covered the following topics: strengthening data protection law at the national, European and international level; requests to the German government for the next legislative period; strengthening of data protection in the social and health care sector; and. Resolution on End-to-End Encryption.

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HHS Announces Settlements with Health Care System and Medical Research Institute over Potential HIPAA Violations

Hunton Privacy

million settlement with the Minnesota Attorney General for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, and various Minnesota debt collection and consumer protection laws. In 2012, Accretive entered into a $2.5 Feinstein Institute.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The Equifax breach was a serious security breach that puts millions of Americans at risk. I have eleven main points: 1.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

We have summarised the key compliance obligations under the PIPL below, with new obligations in bold for ease of reference: Relevant Laws/Regulations The PIPL becomes the primary, national-level law governing processing of personal information, but does not replace the existing data privacy framework.

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OPC reconsiders its approach to cross-border data transfers with the Equifax decision

Data Protection Report

Any organization governed by the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) will have to re-evaluate and likely adjust its approach to such cross-border data transfers, possibly affecting its outsourcing and cloud computing relationships with vendors and related companies. Section 6.1

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Among other news: Users of Pandora and Clifford car alarms learned that they were at risk of having their car stolen due to a security vulnerability. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.