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Insights about the first five years of Right to be Forgotten requests at Google

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is a landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. in February 2018. and replaces my 2018 blog post on the subject with updated numbers and additional insights. Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF). made publicly available. Europe’s right to be forgotten. This blog post details our.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Agency (Feb.

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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

On May 22, 2018, the Secretaries issued the Botnet Report, which, consistent with longstanding Federal policy, promotes the longstanding partnership between the federal government and the private sector in combating cyber-attacks. On May 31, 2018, the U.S. State Department Reports.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. It was recently signed into law by the governor.

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

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. It was recently signed into law by the governor.

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California passes major legislation, expanding consumer privacy rights and legal exposure for US and global companies

Data Protection Report

On June 28, 2018, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) a sweeping, GDPR-like privacy law which is intended to give California consumers more control over how businesses collect and use their data. Consumer access and data portability rights. Prohibited practices.

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