Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HHS OCR Guides Spotlight Sanctions for Insiders; Telehealth Privacy, Security Risks Federal regulators issued new guidance materials for HIPAA-regulated entities, including a document stressing the importance of sanction policies for workforce members who violate HIPAA, plus two new resources for healthcare providers and patients regarding telehealth (..)

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. Companies lying about what they do with your privacy is a very serious allegation. Privacy is important, and very easily misunderstood.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. At this point, those documents are more historical than anything else. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The importance of carrying out a careful risk and impact assessment in order to safeguard the security of the information and the data privacy. Therefore, it’s essential to carry out a careful risk and impact assessment in order to safeguard the security of the information and the data privacy.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Australian legislature increased maximum penalties for ‘serious’ contraventions of the Privacy Act with effect from December 2022 to at least A$50 million. The Publicly Available Facts Australian Clinical Labs Limited is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and operates one of the largest pathology businesses in Australia.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Computer security and data privacy are often poorly considered issues, experts urge more awareness of cyber threats. While the 27035 standard covers system and network security incidents, it can also apply to incidents involving other forms of information such as documents, intellectual property, personal and business information.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident. Boeing is “assessing the claim”.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Privacy and cybersecurity practices of target companies are being increasingly scrutinized throughout the due diligence process in M&A transactions. Sellers can expect buyers to seek to allocate this risk within the representations and warranties and related indemnification obligations in their deal documentation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2021

Researchers disclosed two new attack techniques that allow modifying visible content on certified PDF documents without invalidating the digital signature. The attacks are documented in CVE-2020-35931 , CVE-2021-28545 , and CVE-2021-28546. ed document by inserting annotations that include malicious code.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On October 17, 2023, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) announced the release of two companion documents that provide further guidance on protecting the privacy of young people.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 8, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued two guidance documents to “help protect patients seeking reproductive health care, as well as their providers” following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. On June 29, 2022, the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 5, 2023

On May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed order against home security camera company Ring LLC (“Ring”) for unfair and deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC’s proposed order would require Ring to (1) pay $5.8

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 19, 2024

On January 16, 2024, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Bill 332 , making New Jersey the 14 th state with a comprehensive state privacy law. In line with the CCPA and other state privacy laws, the New Jersey law broadly defines “sale” as the disclosure of personal data to a third party for “monetary or other valuable consideration.”

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In today's digital era of information technology, a company needs to consider several factors to decide how to manage their data and documents online. A large share of companies have now adopted cloud-based infrastructure, but many still rely on the tried-and-true legacy of on-premises document management software programs.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

1] While the BYOD approach may offer certain advantages, such as greater flexibility and cost savings, employers should be mindful of the cybersecurity and privacy risks when leaving employees to their own devices. In this article, we explore some of these risks along with best practices employers can implement to mitigate these concerns.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Chances are strong that your corporate website uses a CMS, and perhaps you have a separate CMS for documents and other files shared by your employees, partners, and suppliers. Security is essential for a CMS. Best security practices. percent of CMS users worry about the security of their CMS—while 46.4

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online. vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. ” concludes vpnMentor.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. It wouldn’t even show me the four multiple-guess questions.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On January 28, 2022, in celebration of Data Privacy Day, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office issued prepared remarks from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and published guidance on data security best practices. Regularly reviewing and updating security policies.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The post FBI Document Shows How Popular Secure Messaging Apps Stack Up via PCMAG.com appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the link here.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This summer, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) hosted its sixth annual PrivacyCon , an event focused on the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security. Privacy – Considerations and Understanding. Privacy – Children and Teenagers. Algorithms. Internet of Things (IoT).

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Collibra

JUNE 23, 2023

The ever-growing digitalization of our world has raised significant concerns about data privacy and security, particularly for agencies that manage and process sensitive and confidential information. Focus: Regulatory frameworks Within the United States there are a number of regulatory frameworks that address citizen privacy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing. Traditionally, privacy has taken the form of a policy document created, housed, and referenced by the offices of general counsel and compliance at most organizations. Data privacy is not a check-the-box compliance or security item.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Demands on legal services within the enterprise have never been greater, extending beyond litigation and regulatory compliance to privacy, data security, and risk and crisis management. At the same time, budgets are being squeezed and legal departments are being asked to do more with less.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Anyone with a passing interest in Australian privacy laws will no doubt have heard about the Optus data breach. The incident, which was made public in late September 2022, is thought to have affected around 9 million individuals (almost 40% of the Australian population), with identity documents relating to approximately 2.22

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Data Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

President and European Commission President announced in a joint press statement on March 25th, 2022 that an agreement “in principle” has been reached on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (Privacy Shield Agreement 2.0). Privacy Shield 1.0 for international transfers of personal data. Government; and. On the U.S.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach Date of breach: Unclear, but breached documents date back to 2017. Incident details: A security vulnerability in a third party left personal data exposed of thousands of motorists who had their vehicle towed on behalf of the An Garda Síochána.

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OneHub

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

There are plenty of ways to send documents over the internet. The problem is that they’re not all secure methods. Email passwords and document privacy settings aren’t always enough. How Are Documents Compromised? A document can go from secure to compromised without warning, and in a matter of seconds.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 12, 2023

On June 22, 2023, the Oregon House of Representatives passed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act ( S.B. If signed, the OCPA would make Oregon the 12th state to have enacted comprehensive privacy legislation. 602, which makes the OCPA more proscriptive than other comprehensive state privacy laws.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Like a couple of WWE arch rivals, Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have squared off against each other in a donnybrook over consumer privacy. Cook initially body slammed Zuckerberg — when Apple issued new privacy policies aimed at giving U.S. Related: Raising kids who care about their privacy.

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IG Guru

APRIL 1, 2020

Perhaps your business or organization has suffered recent document damage – due to a fire, earthquake or flood, for example. Or maybe you have simply decided to back up and digitize hard copies of important documents for future safekeeping. In either case, one very important aspect of document restoration or scanning is security.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Just as with social media platforms, privacy issues will be at the forefront of the metaverse as it develops and begins to gain widespread traction by users. In an earlier article, the privacy issues surrounding the metaverse were discussed from a European standpoint. As the Metaverse Expands, So Will Privacy Laws.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 29, 2016

Privacy Shield documents following the latest negotiations between U.S. Certain aspects of the prior Privacy Shield framework were criticized by the Article 29 Working Party , the European Parliament and the European Data Protection Supervisor. On June 29, 2016, Politico reported that it has obtained updated EU-U.S.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As an overarching law in China with respect to data privacy, PIPL shares many similarities with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If a company has already been GDPR compliant, its data privacy compliance system can basically work in China, while certain localizations are necessary in response to unique requirements under PIPL.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 18, 2023

state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. SB 5 also requires controllers to establish, implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of personal data. This could make Indiana the seventh U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2022

Bill C-27 would modernize Canada’s approach to private sector data protection and introduce new rules related to artificial intelligence (“AI”).

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