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July 9 – 13, 2019

InfoGovNuggets

. “ FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement ,” The Wall Street Journal , July 13, 2019 (online). Violation of prior consent order involving user privacy leads to big fine and additional controls. Privacy, Governance. s Reckitt ,” The Wall Street Journal , July 12, 2019 (online). “ U.S.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. Ransomware.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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BEST PRACTICES: Rising complexities of provisioning identities has pushed ‘IGA’ to the fore

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this. Companies need a reliable way to know at all times where sensitive data is sitting, and who might be accessing it, in order to keep it out of the hands of threat actors, he said.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. Data breach litigation risks. Data breach litigation may reach a turning point in 2018.

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Highest European Court Confirms: No Presumption of Confidentiality Over Documents Submitted in Marketing Authorization Dossier

Data Matters

On January 22, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that there is not a general presumption of confidentiality over documents containing clinical and preclinical data provided to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to support a marketing authorization application. Judgment and implications.

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Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts – UK Offers Legal Clarity

Data Matters

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement). 9 “ESMA Advice: Initial Coin Offerings and Crypto-Assets,” January 9, 2019. See [link]. Available at [link].