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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S. billion last year.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Rather than bringing substantial changes to the existing China data privacy framework, the PIPL helpfully consolidates and clarifies obligations on processing of personal information at a national law level. To be clear, this is not China’s own GDPR.

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New York Enacts Stricter Data Cybersecurity Laws

Data Matters

On July 25, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed the two bills into law, one which amended the state’s data breach notification law, and another that created additional obligations for data breaches at credit reporting agencies. The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act.

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FRANCE: CNIL adopts new single authorization on fraud prevention systems

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The French data protection authority (CNIL) has just adopted Single Authorization No. AU-054 (the “AU-054”) on July 13, 2017 in order to cover the processing of personal data implemented in relation to these fraud prevention/detection systems. 511-20-III of the French Code Monétaire et Financier and related regulations.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #07 [Scam of the Week] The Turkey-Syria Earthquake

KnowBe4

link] Spear Phishing Attacks Increase 127% As Use of Impersonation Skyrockets Impersonation of users, domains and brands is on the rise, as is the use of malicious links, in response to security vendors improving their ability to detect malicious attachments. Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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Institutional Investor’s Introduction to Blockchain and Digital Asset Investing

Data Matters

We will also discuss a developing range of services referred to as digital asset “prime brokerage” — describing the suite of services typically provided by these prime brokers and comparing them to traditional offerings of prime brokers in the securities space. Traditional OTC Derivatives.

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Executive Order on access to Americans’ bulk sensitive data and Attorney General proposed regulations – Part 2

Data Protection Report

China Cuba Iran North Korea Russia Venezuela What is “personally identifiable data” that is “in combination with each other”? The proposed regulation would define the term to mean any “listed identifier” that is linked to any other “listed identifier.” Note that the only difference between the two examples is the addition of IP addresses.

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