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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Additionally, educating stakeholders and conducting regular security testing enhance overall data protection while reducing the likelihood of breaches. Train stakeholders : Educate your stakeholders and users to understand and carry out their data protection duties, and promote a culture of data security awareness.

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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a breach to include login credentials and narrowing the permissible circumstances under which substitute notice may be used.

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FTC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Update COPPA Rule

Hunton Privacy

The use of education technology (“ed tech”) would be limited and the changes would codify guidance that bars students’ personal information being used for commercial purposes. Limiting push notifications that are intended to keep children online longer. Restricting ed tech in schools. Strengthening data security.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM) Policies and the Law - Part 1

AIIM

All those other areas are much broader in their interpretation of “business records”; under hearsay, the definition is comparatively narrow. A document not meeting the requirements for business records under the hearsay exception might still be producible under the rules for discovery and used against you by the other party.

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Managing AI risks and legal implications, effective cybersecurity, ensuring privacy and the integrity of organizational records

Data Protection Report

Handol Kim provided a technical definition of AI and addresses the hype surrounding AI. Companies should update policies and procedures, document new procedures and the process for their implementation, familiarize all parties with new practices, and continue to review practices as laws and regulations evolve.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

Krebs on Security

Abnormal Security documented how it tied the email back to a Nigerian man who acknowledged he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network he is building called Sociogram. “Education is definitely one piece, as raising awareness is hands down the best way to get ahead of this,” Tokazowski said, in a June 2021 interview.