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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. The GDPR expands the rights of EU individuals and the obligations placed on organizations.

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

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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Information security and compliance training for the healthcare sector

IT Governance

Healthcare is one of the hardest-hit industries when it comes to data breaches. Healthcare providers (HCPs) and industry partners process significant amounts of data which that is both attractive and valuable to cyber criminals. and healthcare must address the new DSP (Data Security and Protection) Toolkit.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. CCPA Background. What Is Covered? IP address, browsing history, etc.)

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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The scope of application of the Data Security Measures. The draft Data Security Measures do not define “sensitive personal data.” Notification and reporting obligation in the event of data breach. and (iii) make a report to their industrial supervising authority and the CAC.

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July 9 – 13, 2019

InfoGovNuggets

As I begin to catch up, here’s a quick summary of some of the week’s information governance headlines. Privacy, Governance. “ Schools Wrestle With Privacy of Digital Data Collected on Students ,” The Wall Street Journal , July 11, 2019 (online). Who owns the data, and what rules govern?