Hunton Privacy

JUNE 1, 2017

On May 16, 2017, the Governor of the State of Washington, Jay Inslee, signed into law House Bill 1493 (“H.B. 1493”), which sets forth requirements for businesses who collect and use biometric identifiers for commercial purposes. The law will become effective on July 23, 2017. With the enactment of H.B. 1493, Washington becomes the third state to pass legislation regulating the commercial use of biometric identifiers.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 31, 2017

The post Is Humanity Obsolete? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image. Upon finishing Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus , I found an unwelcome kink in my otherwise comfortably adjusted frame of reference. It brought with it the slight nausea of a hangover, a lingering whiff of jet exhaust from a hard night, possibly involving rough psychedelics.

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CGI

JUNE 1, 2017

OT-IT convergence brings opportunities and risk. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Thu, 06/01/2017 - 07:40. Operational technology (OT) or industrial control systems (ICS) are responsible for keeping the power on and water and gas flowing to support essential services for consumers, industry and governments. As technology advances, utilities are introducing Internet connections (IT) to their OT networks to improve operational efficiency.

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MIKE 2.0

MAY 27, 2017

At the height of the race for the moon, everyone imagined that by now we would be living in a space age. Instead we got the information age which has given us access to unparalleled global connections and almost the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” assumed the information revolution would happen alongside the move into space, in fact it seems they had to be sequential.

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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

JUNE 1, 2017

On June 1, 2017, the new Cybersecurity Law went into effect in China. This post takes stock of (1) which measures have been passed so far, (2) which ones go into effect on June 1 and (3) which ones are in progress but have yet to be promulgated. A draft implementing regulation and a draft technical guidance document on the treatment of cross-border transfers of personal information have been circulated, but at this time only the Cybersecurity Law itself and a relatively specific regulation (appl

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CGI

MAY 31, 2017

The impact of a cyber breach on public sector organisations. harini.kottees…. Wed, 05/31/2017 - 05:09. Recently CGI commissioned research from Oxford Economics to explore the link between a cyber incident and company value. Specifically, we wanted to develop an analytical methodology to examine share-price movements in companies that had experienced publicly disclosed cyber breaches.

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Imperial Violet

MAY 30, 2017

In 2005 and 2006, a series of significant results were published against SHA-1 [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]. These repeated break-throughs caused something of a crisis of faith as cryptographers questioned whether we knew how to build hash functions at all. After all, many hash functions from the 1990's had not aged well [ 1 ][ 2 ]. In the wake of this, NIST announced ( PDF ) a competition to develop SHA-3 in order to hedge the risk of SHA-2 falling.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 2, 2017

On May 26, 2017, Alcoa Community Federal Credit Union (“Alcoa”), on behalf of itself, credit unions, banks and other financial institutions, filed a nationwide class action against Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (“Chipotle”). The case arises from a breach of customer payment card data. The putative class consists of all such financial institutions that issued payment cards, or were involved with card-issuing services, for customers who made purchases at Chipotle from March 1, 2017, to the present.

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Managing Your Information

MAY 30, 2017

I attended a seminar last year where an organisation presented a new database that they had been developing. In my view, it was great. Genuine issues recognised by both the organisation and the sector involved would be addressed and the tool, without doubt, would facilitate better management of those issues. As the presentation went on, however, it became clear that nobody seemed to have considered compliance with data protection legislation.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 1, 2017

With just under one year to go before the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) becomes law across the European Union, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has continued its efforts to help businesses prepare for the new law. The ICO also has taken steps to address its own role post-Brexit. In a YouTube video published on May 25, 2017, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham stressed the importance of preparing for the GDPR, warning that companies risk enforcement action –

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 1, 2017

Recently, the Colorado Division of Securities (the “Division”) published cybersecurity regulations for broker-dealers and investment advisers regulated by the Division. Colorado’s cybersecurity regulations follow similar regulations enacted in New York that apply to certain state-regulated financial institutions. The regulations obligate covered broker-dealers and investment advisers to establish and maintain written cybersecurity procedures designed to protect “confidential personal information

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 30, 2017

On May 29, 2017, a high-level EU Commission official and Politico reported that the primary objective of the first annual joint review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”) is not to obtain more concessions from the U.S. regarding Europeans’ privacy safeguards, but rather to monitor the current U.S. administration’s work and steer U.S. privacy debates to prevent privacy safeguards from deteriorating.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 2, 2017

The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP recently submitted formal comments (“Comments”) to the Article 29 Working Party’s (“Working Party’s”) Guidelines on Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) and determining whether processing is “likely to result in a high risk” for the purposes of Regulation 2016/679 (“DPIA Guidelines”) that were adopted on April 4, 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2017

On May 25, 2017, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law H.B. 2090 , which updates Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act by holding companies liable for making misrepresentations on their websites ( e.g. , in privacy policies) or in their consumer agreements about how they will use, disclose, collect, maintain, delete or dispose of consumer information.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2017

On May 26, 2017, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Annual Report”) highlighting its main accomplishments from the past year. In 2016, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The GDPR was enacted in May 2016 and will come into force in May 2018.

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