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Belgium: ePrivacy proposal in progress: Council agrees on its position to start off ‘trilogue’ negotiations

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In its latest version released under the Portuguese Presidency, the draft ePrivacy Regulation (the “Draft”) includes substantive changes : Processing of metadata. The Draft sets forth several modifications regarding metadata processing and subjects this category of data to specific obligations.

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NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal

Adam Levin

The controversial collection of details on billions of American phone calls by the National Security Agency (NSA) was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court. Under the NSA program, information and metadata from calls placed by U.S.

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Federal District Judge Ruling Casts Cloud Over NSA Data Collection

Hunton Privacy

On December 16, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from collecting and analyzing metadata related to two consumers’ mobile phone accounts. The combined database is enormous, and it is updated daily.

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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Avast details Worok espionage group’s compromise chain

Security Affairs

Avast experts were able to capture several PNG files embedding a data-stealing payload. They pointed out that data collection from victims’ machines using DropBox repository, and attackers use DropBox API for communication with the final stage. They steal data via the DropBox account registered on active Google emails.”

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The importance of governance: What we’re learning from AI advances in 2022

IBM Big Data Hub

It can help us leverage significant amounts of data to start designing and discovering new solutions to business and societal problems such as those related to sustainability, life sciences, customer care, employee experience and many more. The potential is vast. How can we ensure that these models are being used responsibly?

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Establishing a solid data foundation to solve the hardest aspects of privacy management

Collibra

Data collection process. Evaluate the current process of collecting data. Then, teams should confirm what data is required to address their needs including for analytics and data privacy use cases. Data collection configuration. Fulfilling data subject rights requests.

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