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Beyond FERPA: The California Consumer Privacy Act’s New Rules for Privacy in the Education Sector

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In June of 2018, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which seeks to give consumers additional safeguards regarding their personal information. The CCPA will become effective January of 2020 and may impact companies in the education sector, including the larger education technology companies.

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How to Prevent Malware: 15 Best Practices for Malware Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Exercise Caution with Emails The first two items on this list could be lumped together with a single warning: Don’t click. Watch File Extensions: Exercise caution with file extensions; avoid files with suspicious extensions like.exe or.bat, especially from unfamiliar sources. This will help improve your data privacy too.

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France: The CNIL publishes a practical guide on Data Protection Officers

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Among the organizations that have designated a DPO, the most represented sectors are, unsurprisingly, the public administration, education and health sectors. the detail of the CNIL online DPO designation form and information to be communicated to the CNIL in that respect. The Guide is composed of four main Parts : I.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375). This legislation was enacted on an extraordinarily accelerated timeframe as part of compromise with the sponsor of a comparable privacy ballot initiative, which had qualified to be placed before state voters on Election Day in November 2018.

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BELGIUM: Belgian DPA reveals its strategy for the next 5 years.

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Online data protection , with a special role for cookies and the related transparency and lawfulness obligations. The DPA intends to keep informing data subjects and data controllers in order to raise GDPR-awareness and stimulate a privacy reflex. Data minimisation and purpose limitation are mentioned specifically.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Protections Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375). This legislation was enacted on an extraordinarily accelerated timeframe as part of compromise with the sponsor of a comparable privacy ballot initiative, which had qualified to be placed before state voters on Election Day in November 2018.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Internet of Things (IoT) security: Encompasses a variety of tools and techniques to secure IoT, operations technology (OT), and other similar categories of endpoints. Monitoring and incident response : Detect and respond to attacks, device failure, and other incident categories to reduce negative impacts and accelerate recovery.

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