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California Legislature Passes Bill Regulating Data Brokers

Hunton Privacy

362 (“Act”), a bill that would impose new requirements on data brokers and grant residents new rights designed to facilitate control over their personal data. The Act would grant California consumers the right to request that data brokers (1) delete and (2) limit the further sale and sharing of consumers’ personal data.

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Over-Retention of Personal Data

Data Protection Report

The declining cost of electronic data storage may have caused some company executives to conclude that retaining personal data forever is “cheap.” The matter involved one of France’s largest insurers, SGAM AG2R LA MONDIALE, which was subject to an inspection by the French data protection authority (the CNIL), in 2019.

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. We have backups, the data is there, but the application to actually do the restoration is encrypted.’

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Cybersecurity Rules for Insurance Companies to Take Effect in South Carolina

Hunton Privacy

New cybersecurity rules for insurance companies licensed in South Carolina are set to take effect in part on January 1, 2019. The new law is the first in the United States to be enacted based on the data security model law drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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New York Department of Financial Services Issues Guidance Regarding Life Insurers’ Use of External Consumer Data in Underwriting

Data Matters

On January 18, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter 2019-1 (the Circular Letter), addressing insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources in underwriting for life insurance. Unlawful Discrimination.

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Data Modeling 101: OLTP data modeling, design, and normalization for the cloud

erwin

How to create a solid foundation for data modeling of OLTP systems. As you undertake a cloud database migration , a best practice is to perform data modeling as the foundation for well-designed OLTP databases. This makes mastering basic data modeling techniques and avoiding common pitfalls imperative. Data modeling basics.

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.