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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

Source New Retail USA Yes 12 Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Source New Public Canada Yes 4 100 Romanian hospitals using the Hipocrate Information System Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes Unknown Prudential Financial Source New Finance USA Yes Unknown Securence (a subsidiary of U.S.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

One meeting I had at RSA Conference 2023 , was a briefing about a new partnership , announced this morning, between a top-rung Silicon Valley tech giant and the leading provider of digital trust. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections.

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Getting Customer Communications Right in Times of Coronavirus

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Across the world, large retail stores and small businesses alike are shutting their doors. International flights and sporting events, conferences and concerts (and everything in between) are being cancelled. The GDPR provides an absolute right to object to all types of direct marketing communications.

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6 things I love about working at Collibra after 6 years in sales engineering

Collibra

I took a course with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) , and became a Certified Information Privacy Professional. After I got the certification, I participated in many conferences about the topic, evangelizing the link between data privacy and protection and data governance all along the way.

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German DPAs Adopt Resolutions Regarding “Connected Cars” and Cooperation with Competition Authorities

Hunton Privacy

On October 9, 2014, the 88th Conference of the German Data Protection Commissioners concluded in Hamburg. During the conference, several resolutions concerning privacy were adopted. Privacy in Connected Cars. The previous Conference was held in Hamburg in April 2014. the effective control of intelligence services.

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MY TAKE: How digital technology and the rising gig economy are exacerbating third-party risks

The Last Watchdog

Related: Free ‘VRMM’ tool measures third-party exposure Just take a look at Europe’s GDPR , NYDFS’s cybersecurity requirement s or even California’s newly minted Consumer Privacy Act. We do white papers and thought leadership at conferences. It’s membership and cross-industry driven.”

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

While exact numbers are hard to come by, large scale studies of companies found that more than a third had been hit by ransomware in the past year, with the retail, government and education sectors particularly hard hit. Ransomware attacks have become a mainstay of the cyber threat landscape -and among the most dreaded forms of cyber crime.