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Alberta OIPC’s 2022 PIPA Breach Report – Trends and Key Takeaways

Data Protection Report

Early Notification : Since 2012 – 2013, at least 80% of organizations had already notified affected individuals at the time the breach was reported to the Commissioner. The following chart summarizes and draws percentages from statistics on decision points and decisions where the OIPC found the RROSH threshold was met. Transmission Error (ie.

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Costa Rica Imposes Five-Day Breach Notification Obligation and Other Stringent Data Protection Requirement

Hunton Privacy

On March 5, 2013, Costa Rica published the Reglamento a la Ley de Protección de la Persona Frente al Tratamiento de sus Datos Personales (Regulations of the Law of Protection of the Person in the Processing of His Personal Data) (the “Regulations”).

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. You could call it.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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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. jujogoru) January 10, 2018.

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