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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” A good example of this is my declaring that Twitter would become a major media platform three years ago. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. It’s about time. 2014: How I Did.

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UK’s Ministry of Justice Launches Consultation on Fines for Data Breaches

Hunton Privacy

In 2008, the DPA was amended by Section 144 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (“CJIA”) to provide the Information Commissioner with the power to impose civil monetary penalties on data controllers who commit serious breaches of any of the obligations set out above (known as the “data protection principles”).

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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. For example, in John B. 12 In other words, the 1983 amendment was seen as limiting the depth rather than the breadth of discovery.13.

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

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. 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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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. We welcome the Government’s proposal for an offence of knowingly or recklessly re-identifying de-identified personal data without the data controller’s consent.

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

That’s roughly 10 percent of all claims. urged the states to use a federally funded hub designed to share applicant data and detect fraudulent claims filed in more than one state. For example, it’s not uncommon for applicants appearing in the company’s video chat to don disguises. based ID.me Image: ID.me.