Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 16, 2016

On December 15, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) issued a press release announcing its December 13, 2016, adoption and release of three sets of guidelines and FAQs on key implementation issues under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”): Guidelines and FAQs on the Right to Data Portability; Guidelines and FAQs on Data Protection Officers (DPO); and.

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Riding the blockchain wave in trade finance. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 12/12/2016 - 22:35. Trade finance, whether conducted on a domestic or international basis, can be a paper-intensive, costly and risk-laden proposition, involving not just companies importing and exporting goods and services but also their banks, insurers and others. The trading process can be time-consuming, error prone, vulnerable to fraud and susceptible to hacking.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This quote from Bob Iger, head of Disney, is quite interesting for his perspective as a leader of a big company: There is a human side to it that I try to apply and consider. [But] the harder thing is to balance with the reality that not everything is perfect. In the normal course of running a company this big, you’re going to see, every day, things that are not as great as you would have hoped or wanted them to be.

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JKevinParker

DECEMBER 10, 2016

I recently was interviewed for the new Tech Leaders Today podcast. In this episode, I talk with host Cassie Crossley about information strategy, architecture, and governance as the real requirements for IT solutions. We also discuss recruiting and developing talented people for Government Information Technology engagements. "Technology isn't the Real Solution with Kevin Parker" Listen to the podcast below, or check it out on the Tech Leaders Today website.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2016

On December 14, 2016, the FTC announced that the operating companies of the AshleyMadison.com website (collectively, the “Operators”) have settled with the FTC and a coalition of state regulators over charges that the Operators deceived consumers and failed to protect users’ personal information. The FTC worked with a coalition of 13 states, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to resolve this matter, which was initiated in th

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Scary Beasts Security

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Overview TL;DR: full reliable 0day drive-by exploit against Fedora 25 + Google Chrome, by breaking out of Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulation via cascading side effects from a subtle and interesting emulation error. Very full details follow. [ UPDATE 13 Dec 2016 -- a couple of competent readers inform me that I've named the wrong processor!

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 15, 2016

[Dec 20 update: The first draft of this post ended up with both consumer and enterprise advice, which made it complex. The enterprise half is now on the IANS blog: Never Waste a Good Crisis: Yahoo Edition.]. Yesterday, Yahoo disclosed that attackers broke into Yahoo in 2013 and stole details on a billion accounts. Brian Krebs summarizes what was taken, and also has a more general FAQ.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 13, 2016

On December 12, 2016, Politico reported that the European Commission intends to replace the e-Privacy Directive with a Regulation. The planned shift from a Directive to a Regulation has important legal consequences under EU law, as it means that instead of creating a floor upon which EU Member States may base the creation of their own versions of the law, a Regulation will create a harmonized set of requirements at the EU level that are directly applicable in the Member States.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Privacy team at Hunton & Williams has authored several chapters of the recently published 2017 guide to data protection and privacy for Getting the Deal Through. The publication covers data privacy and data protection laws in 26 jurisdictions across the globe. Wim Nauwelaerts, Privacy team partner in the firm’s Brussels office, served as the contributing editor of the guide and co-authored the Belgium chapter and the EU overview.

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