Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to Bloomberg BNA , Paul F. Nemitz, Director for Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship at the Directorate-General Justice of the European Commission, said at a privacy conference that he hoped a new U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement would be reached by the evening of Monday, February 1, 2016. According to Nemitz, V?ra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Justice, will go to Parliament on Monday evening to “inform member states…of the outcome [of

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CGI

JANUARY 28, 2016

How ‘smart’ is your smart working strategy? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 01/28/2016 - 07:02. When I talk with friends, family and my clients about the current people challenges in business, there’s often a lot of interest and hot debate about ‘ Smart’ Working …indeed when I joined CGI, one of the things that attracted me as a prospective employee was the company’s philosophy on being outcome focused, providing opportunities to work flexibly and a commitment to employee wellbeing and the work-life b

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Roger's Information Security

JANUARY 27, 2016

This week Tenable released a new “plugin” (what they call a vulnerability detection) named “Web Server HTTP Header Information Disclosure”, plugin id 88099. In spite of even the title saying it only an information disclosure vulnerability, they rate this a medium. In my environment that means we need to address it. I think its a little crazy for an information disclosure vulnerability to be rated that high.

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JKevinParker

JANUARY 26, 2016

The information experts at Optismo and InfoGovCon have published a new report called " Information Governance 2016: The State of Enterprise Information (Part 1) ". This important research paints a bleak picture of Information Governance maturity in today's enterprises. I was excited to see one of my responses quoted in this research: InfoGovCon: "Do you believe the term 'Enterprise Content Management' is still helpful or still has meaning?".

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2016

On January 28, 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Judicial Redress Act (the “Act”), which would give EU citizens the right to sue over certain data privacy issues in the U.S. The Act passed after an amendment was approved which would condition EU citizens’ right to sue on EU Member States (1) allowing companies to transfer personal data to the U.S. for commercial purposes and (2) having personal data transfer policies which do not materially impede the national security interests of

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CGI

JANUARY 25, 2016

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 01/25/2016 - 03:00. The author Tim Ferriss tells the story of a man who loses his keys after a night on the town. His friends find him on his hands and knees looking for them under a streetlight, even though he knows he lost them somewhere else. “Why are you looking for your keys under the streetlight?

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 29, 2016

On January 28, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) held a special roundtable at Hunton & Williams’ Brussels office to examine the “essential equivalence” requirement for protection of data transfers to non-EU countries set by the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (“CJEU’s”) Schrems decision. The roundtable brought together leading lawyers, corporate privacy officers, legal experts, regulators and policymakers to discuss the critical issues and impact of t

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2016

On January 13, 2016, the Russian Data Protection Authority ( Roscommandzor ) released its plan for audits this year to assess compliance with Russia’s data localization law , which became effective on September 1, 2015. The localization law requires companies to store the personal data of Russians in databases located in Russia. The audit plan indicates that the Roscommandzor will audit large, multinational companies doing business in numerous jurisdictions and processing the personal data of Ru

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