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Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. Social media companies will need to think seriously about how they can repair their image. More About This Author >. Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:46. Governments need to take action. Carsten Maple | University of Warwick.

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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. Under the proposed consent orders, both companies do not confirm or deny the allegations.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Publishes Toolkit for Data Sharing with Law Enforcement

Data Matters

The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ ICO ”) has introduced a toolkit on data sharing with law enforcement (“ Toolkit ”) which supplements the ICO’s existing guidance on sharing personal data with law enforcement authorities.

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ITALY: the Garante aligns with CNIL and DSB holding that the use of Google Analytics leads to unlawful transfer of Personal Data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Italian privacy authority, the Garante, deemed that the use of Google Analytics results in unlawful transfers of personal data to the United States in violation of the principles outlined in the Schrems II ruling. In Order No. The disputed facts. Code § 1881(b)(4), which subjects the company to the surveillance of U.S.

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Europe: Opinion of the Advocate General on presumed fault of the controller in case of unlawful third-party access to personal data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In the course of this cyber-attack, personal data – mainly tax and social security information – of approximately 4 million Bulgarian citizens (or approximately 6 million citizens in total, including foreign citizens) had been accessed and published on the Internet.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. Quantitative data on human cybersecurity awareness. Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20. Use strong passwords.

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Over 80 US Municipalities’ Sensitive Information, Including Resident’s Personal Data, Left Vulnerable in Massive Data Breach

Security Affairs

What Data Was Left Vulnerable? Our team of ethical cybersecurity researchers discovered over 80 misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets holding data related to these municipalities, totalling over 1000 GB of data and over 1.6 In the event of a data breach, governments should inform potentially-vulnerable citizens as soon as possible.