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Two FTC complaints that over-retention of personal data violates Section 5

Data Protection Report

In both cases, the FTC’s complaint alleged that the companies retained personal data for longer than was necessary, and that conduct violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act as an unfair act or practice. Complaint ¶10.) Under the proposed consent orders, both companies do not confirm or deny the allegations.

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

The purpose of this article is to remove the fear and intimidation of domestic and global data protection laws and show how these laws and requirements are consistent with the existing objectives of your records retention schedule and information governance policy. resumes, personnel files, video/call recordings).

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. Or the UK's NCA to be feeding data in.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services. link] pic.twitter.com/rIBh5Y7dbj — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 10, 2018.