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US: As expected, California ballot initiative passes, significantly altering the California Consumer Privacy Act

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As the business community takes stock of (and impatiently waits for) 2020 election results, it should place particular significance on the passage of Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) by about a 12 percent margin. The CPRA introduces key new definitions that focus on digital advertising and sensitive data.

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Data Disposition: What is it and why should it be part of your data retention policy?

AIIM

AIIM training provides us with the following definition: Disposition is the disposal of information that has come to the end of the information lifecycle. The retention schedule must apply to all the data in an organization’s possession, not just information officially classified as “records.” What is Disposition?

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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance

The Last Watchdog

Sadly, data breaches often occur at this time of year. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. Last year, at this time, it was announced that there was a significant privacy leak at eBay affecting many customers. What exactly makes data sensitive? Assessing sensitivity.

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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

A data catalog uses metadata, data that describes or summarizes data, to create an informative and searchable inventory of all data assets in an organization. Business metadata is sometimes referred to as external metadata attributed to the business aspects of a data asset. Ensures regulatory compliance.

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How Generative AI Will Remake Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Also read: ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4 How LLM Technology Works in Security The core technology for LLMs is fairly new. There are the potential data privacy concerns arising due to the collection and storage of sensitive data by these models,” said Peter Burke, who is the Chief Product Officer at SonicWall.

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US: CPRA analysis: The ‘good’ and ‘bad’ news for CCPA-regulated ‘businesses’

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On May 4, the Californians for Consumer Privacy, led by founder Alastair Mactaggart, announced its submission to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act for the November 2020 ballot. Californians for Consumer Privacy has announced that it has collected about 900,000 signatures. Jim Halpert, Lael Bellamy.

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How to Comply with GDPR, PIPL, and CCPA

eSecurity Planet

But in order for businesses to maintain compliance with major privacy laws , they have to have security measures in place before an attack. The regulations from GDPR, PIPL, and CCPA are especially prevalent to MSPs and software vendors because they get access to data from so many organizations, but all businesses need to comply with them.

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