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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. institution of higher education. Such data security practices shall be appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at issue.”.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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

IT Governance

GB JSP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Thailand) PCL Source (New) Manufacturing Thailand Yes >80 GB TREZOR Source (New) Crypto France Yes Nearly 66,000 Oak View Group Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 58,935 Innefu Labs Pvt. Source (New) Manufacturing Saudi Arabia Yes 86.16

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Energy Canada Yes 1 TB AB Texel Source (New) Transport Netherlands Yes 1 TB STOCK Development Source (New) Real estate USA Yes 1 TB Centre Hospitalier d’Armentières Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare France Yes >900,000 INSS Source (New) Public Brazil Yes 879,492 bienDIG Source (New) Software Mexico Yes 450,000 Grand Avignon (..)

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

GB Universidad de La Punta Source (New) Education Argentina Yes 47,562 (95,123 lines; probably half repeated) Unfallkasse Thüringen Source (New) Insurance Germany Yes 45 GB Protektor24.ru Source (New) Real estate Canada Yes 54 GB ACE Air Cargo Source (New) Transport USA Yes 52.6 Source (New) Finance USA Yes 33.96

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Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

ARMA International

However, the data privacy and data protection rules of many countries prohibit companies from transferring to the United States (or making accessible in the United States) documents containing personal information of persons within their countries (“data subjects”). GDPR, OJ L119 at 82-83.