Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

On November 17, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP issued a white paper on Ensuring the Effectiveness and Strategic Role of the Data Protection Officer under the General Data Protection Regulation (the “White Paper”). The White Paper sets forth guidance and recommendations concerning the interpretation and implementation of the GDPR’s provisions relating to the role of the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”).

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This week is Explore Your Archive week – a brilliant opportunity to exhibit the unique potential of archives to excite and intrigue people, bring communities together, and share amazing stories. In celebration of Explore Your Archive week, which is supported by the The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association (ARA), we thought it would be interesting to share our pick of Archives that are pioneering the way in preserving digital content for use by future generations, as well as

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CGI

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sécurité infonuagique et atteinte d’objectifs de conformité – Leçons apprises*. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Mon, 11/21/2016 - 05:32. Lorsque de l’information ou des applications sont désignées comme essentielles, une organisation devrait immédiatement comprendre que ces systèmes exigent les plus hauts degrés de sécurité, et donc d’importants investissements pour les protéger contre les attaques malveillantes.

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Attensa

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Despite large annual expenditures for content few organizations have a way to measure how people engage and use information from paid or free sources. This turns budgeting and allocation into a SWAG exercise. In today’s data-driven world that seems broken. . There are many reasons that tracking the use of acquired content or assigning value to the work product of libraries and information centers is difficult.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

On November 20, 2016, the heads of state of the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) forum reaffirmed the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) system in their Leaders’ Declaration at the APEC Leaders’ Meeting in Lima, Peru as follows: “We recall the APEC Leaders 2011 Honolulu Declaration and recognize the importance of implementing the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules System, a voluntary mechanism whose participants seek to increase the number of economies, co

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In 2013, President Obama issued Executive Order 13636 and directed the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology […].

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Overview Recently (Nov 21st, 2016), I published an 0day exploit against the gstreamer FLIC decoder, here on my blog. The response time from gstreamer upstream was impressive: a patch in 1 day or so that fixed not only the immediate issue but also some similar bugs in other functions in the decoder. More on those other bugs in another post. Here is the git commit.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

On November 18, 2016, the Argentina Data Protection Agency (“DPA”) announced that it had issued DNPDP Disposition 60 – a new regulation on international transfers of personal data (the “Regulation”). . The Regulation approves two model forms for the international transfer of data – one for use with transfers to a data controller and another for use with transfers to a data processor, for rendering services.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

On November 10, 2016, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released new guidance for businesses and consumers on the impact […].

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

On October 21, 2016, a domain name service host and internet management company experienced at least two waves of a […].

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Overview A powerful heap corruption vulnerability exists in the gstreamer decoder for the FLIC file format. Presented here is an 0day exploit for this vulnerability. This decoder is generally present in the default install of modern Linux desktops, including Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24. Gstreamer classifies its decoders as “good”, “bad” or “ugly”. Despite being quite buggy, and not being a format at all necessary on a modern desktop, the FLIC decoder is classified as “good”, almost guaranteeing i

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