Hunton Privacy

APRIL 17, 2014

On April 9, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) issued an Opinion on using the “legitimate interests” ground listed in Article 7 of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC as the basis for lawful processing of personal data. Citing “legitimate interests” as a ground for data processing requires a balancing test, and it may be relied on only if (1) the data processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the controller (or third parties), and (2) such interests are

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Positively RIM

APRIL 17, 2014

Last year, when leaders of ARMA International and The Sedona Conference discovered they were each planning conferences on Information Governance for this April, it was obvious they should combine their efforts, not compete. The result was the first Executive Conference on Information Governance, held April 14-15 at Amelia Island, Florida. Congratulations to ARMA and Sedona on a highly successful conference!

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JKevinParker

APRIL 12, 2014

I created a Wordle word cloud of AIIM's eBook “Information Chaos V. Information Opportunity: THE information challenge for the next decade” Download this word cloud as a hi-res PDF These are the top 100 words in the paper. I replaced “IT” with “informationtechnology”, or else it would have been filtered out as a common word.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 14, 2014

As the next in our series of “back to privacy basics”, we look the rules regarding collection and processing of […].

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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

APRIL 17, 2014

On April 10, 2014, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed into law a data breach notification statute requiring persons and entities conducting business in Kentucky to notify individuals whose personally identifiable information was compromised in certain circumstances. The law will take effect on July 14, 2014. Kentucky’s data breach notification law covers “personally identifiable information,” which is defined as an individual’s first name or first initial and last name in combination with an

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 16, 2014

On April 10, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted Opinion 04/2014. The Opinion analyzes the implications of electronic surveillance programs on the right to privacy and provides several recommendations for protecting EU personal data in the surveillance context. Since the Snowden revelations began last year, the Working Party has been expected to release its official point of view on surveillance activities of intelligence services, both in the United States and in th

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 15, 2014

On April 9, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced settlements with two data brokers, Instant Checkmate, Inc. (“Instant Checkmate”) and InfoTrack Information Services, Inc. (“InfoTrack”), which sell public record information about consumers. The settlements stem from allegations that Instant Checkmate and InfoTrack violated various provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).

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Positively RIM

APRIL 14, 2014

The first Executive Conference on Information Governance convened today at Amelia Island, Florida. Produced by ARMA International and The Sedona Conference, over 100 attorneys, RIM authorities, and technologists (along with assorted specialists in security, compliance, and other disciplines) gathered to explore the potential of and obstacles to Information Governance.

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Information governance Government Compliance Risk 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 14, 2014

On April 10, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection had notified Facebook and WhatsApp Inc., reminding both companies of their obligation to honor privacy statements made to consumers in connection with Facebook’s proposed acquisition of WhatsApp. In a letter to the companies, Bureau Director Jessica Rich wrote, “WhatsApp has made a number of promises about the limited nature of the data it collects, maintains, and shares with th

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 14, 2014

On April 10, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) issued a letter (the “Letter”) to Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, expressing its views on the European Commission’s ongoing revision of the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework. Background. On November 27, 2013, the European Commission published its analysis of the EU-U.S.

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