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Guest Post: France’s Digital Republic Act Strengthens Privacy Safeguards

IGI

Businesses must now notify customers how long their personal data will be held. Customers can also request that businesses delete personal data collected when they were minors. In addition, the law enumerates the right to privacy protections after a citizen passes away through a new instrument called a personal data will.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

Use of Personal Data Should be Transparent and Easy to Understand. Back in September, a number of people pointed me at Experian's "FREE Dark Web Email Scan" (capitalisation is theirs, not mine) because on the surface of it, it seemed similar to my Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service. That is absolutely ridiculous!

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

John Battelle's Searchblog

First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And the scientific method – the pursuit of truth and progress – all that turns on the data. How much have you thought about that word in the past two years?

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What Is Our Professional Future?

Brandeis Records Manager

A recent futurist reading binge has been an exercise in masochism, or deer-in-the-headlights simulation, or emperor’s new clothes realization. Reading through Kelly’s book as a records manager or archivist is an exercise in marathon squirming. Chaotic, Counter-Control Culture .