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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Information Management in the Not-So-Distant Future of Health Care

AIIM

The classic example is the insurer that won’t pay for care that a doctor determines a patient needs. Insurers are about profit; doctors are about delivering the best care. With collaborative videoconferencing: Low-income patients without insurance can use the Emergency Room less often. Telemedicine. Predictive Analytics.

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Spanish DPA Publishes Report on Data Processing Activities in Relation to COVID-19

Hunton Privacy

Performing a task carried out in the public interest: Article 6(1)(e) of the GDPR may also provide a legal basis where data processing is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the course of exercising official authority vested in the data controller.

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Irish Data Protection Bill in Final Committee Stage Before the Irish Legislature

Hunton Privacy

Right to Object to Direct Marketing : The Bill protects direct mailing carried out in the course of electoral activities, subject to certain conditions, from the right to object to direct marketing.

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UAE: Federal level data protection law enacted

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Further details regarding this exception are expected in the Executive Regulations, however it would appear that the intention is to exempt small and medium sized businesses that do not process large volumes of data in the course of their business. Conduct a data mapping exercise. The Data Protection Office. 44) of 2021.

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Amazon And The Bridge Too Far

John Battelle's Searchblog

So studying how and where it lures a shopper through a purchase process is a worthy exercise. Amazon knows this, of course. Well of course it is. ” Amazon knows all of that, of course, but it also knows exactly how long it takes ME to get fatigued, to enter what I like to call “f**k it” mode.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Our current political and economic culture is, of course, a direct descendant of this living document. Of course, we actively ignore them – who on earth would ever read them? Of course, ignoring begets ignorance, and we’ve ignored Terms of Service at our peril. (Don’t So what insures engagement and attention?