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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Finnish Parliament has approved the new general Act on the Secondary Use of Social Welfare and Health Care Data (Laki sosiaali- ja terveystietojen toissijaisesta käytöstä, based on government proposal HE 159/2017) in March 2019. The Act shall become effective within the following weeks.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. institution of higher education. Such data security practices shall be appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at issue.”.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

Data breaches. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers Marriott faces London lawsuit over vast data breach Russian arrested for trying to recruit an insider and hack a Nevada company. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Financial information.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.” The CCPA defines “personal information” broadly to include information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” .);

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

GB JSP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Thailand) PCL Source (New) Manufacturing Thailand Yes >80 GB TREZOR Source (New) Crypto France Yes Nearly 66,000 Oak View Group Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 58,935 Innefu Labs Pvt. Source (New) Manufacturing Saudi Arabia Yes 86.16