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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

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

For over 30 years I have studied the technologies of security and privacy. I am a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. Just one of the data brokers studied holds information on more than 1.4

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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

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

In defeating feature fatigue, researchers from the University of Maryland presented participants in a controlled study with models of a new audio and video player that differed only in the number of features offered. A second study presented participants with a list of 25 features on a new audio or video player.

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Debut of the Texas State Records Retention Schedule (RRS): 5th Edition – 5/10/2020

The Texas Record

2.1.001 Processing Files These types of records should be classified under Master Files and Application Data (2.1.002) and Computer Software Programs (2.1.007), as applicable. 2.2.004 Computer Job Schedules and Reports This type of record should be classified under Activity Reports (1.1.069).

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. There are many customer acquisition, engagement, and retention models, as well as studies describing the costs of finding new customers versus retaining them. One such model is illustrated in Figure 4.

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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. This becomes very onerous if you are doing a long study. If you think that your data has been anonymised, according to the computational privacy group at Imperial College, you will be wrong.

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