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2 State Cybersecurity, Data Privacy Laws Enacted

Data Breach Today

Connecticut Law Provides Security Incentives; Colorado Measure Addresses Consumers' Privacy Two states have recently taken steps to bolster cybersecurity and data privacy protections. And a new data privacy law in Colorado allows individuals to opt out of data collection.

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EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in Activist Crosshairs

Data Breach Today

European Commission Took Key Step in Finalizing Trans-Atlantic Data Flow Framework Europe took a key step in formalizing a framework to underpin the trans-Atlantic flow of commercial data but privacy activists say the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. agreement won't stand up to a legal challenge.

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Cars Have Terrible Data Privacy

Schneier on Security

A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy. All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label—making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed. There’s a lot of details in the report.

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USA: An Overview of State Data Privacy Laws Part Two – Scope and Enforcement

Data Matters

The US state data privacy landscape is fast evolving into a patchwork of broad state privacy laws that govern for-profit and non-profit entities that meet certain threshold criteria and the personal information of residents in each of those states.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record. How do we protect that data, knowing that no solution is 100% fail-safe? In that vein, this webinar will cover: How and why a data breach prevention mindset is a company-wide measure.

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Connecticut Becomes 5th US State to Get Data Privacy Law

Data Breach Today

Rules Similar to Privacy Laws Passed in California, Colorado, Virginia and Utah Connecticut has just become the fifth U.S. state to get a comprehensive data privacy and online monitoring law, as Senate Bill No. 6 passed into law on Wednesday.

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What the FTC Is Signaling in Recent Data Privacy Cases

Data Breach Today

Attorney Kirk Nahra on Where FTC Is Headed in Disputes Such as GoodRx, BetterHelp The Federal Trade Commission's recent actions against two companies in separate health data privacy cases are significant developments signaling the FTC's "aggressive push" to enforce violations involving disclosures of consumer health data to third parties, said attorney (..)