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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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New York Enacts Stricter Data Cybersecurity Laws

Data Matters

Together, the new laws require the implementation of reasonable data security safeguards, expand breach reporting obligations for certain types of information, and require that a “consumer credit reporting agency” that suffers a data breach provide five years of identity theft prevention services for impacted residents.

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U.S. states pass data protection laws on the heels of the GDPR

Data Protection Report

On the security front, as of March 2018, all 50 U.S. These new and amended state data breach laws expand the definition of personal information and specifically mandate that certain information security requirements are implemented. See our earlier post on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) here.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e.,

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

The definition of personal information under AB 375 is expansive. Specific categories defined as personal information include. Additionally, there is a category of personal information that includes profiles created from inferences derived from other types of personal information. What Is Personal Information. geolocation data.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e.,

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FTC Publishes Red Flags Rule Compliance Guide; Confirms Broad Interpretation of the Rule

Hunton Privacy

.” The guide applies to creditors and certain financial institutions (such as state-chartered credit unions and mutual funds that offer accounts with check-writing privileges) that are subject to the FTC’s jurisdiction and addresses the provision of the Rule that requires implementation of an Identity Theft Prevention Program.