Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 29, 2020

This must be addressed with procurement contract terms restricting the use of the personal data. . Smart cities digital solutions often collect data without consent. Otherwise, the collection must be optional, for example through an app. Risk # 3: Excessive collection of personal data. Share on Facebook.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

AUGUST 5, 2020

When the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield as a vehicle to transfer personal data from the EU to the US, last July 16, 2020, the obvious question was: “What is the transition period?” The answer is now coming from EU Data Protection Authorities in Europe: there is none.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The four leaked files contain information about the users whose data has been allegedly scraped by the threat actor, including their full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more. An example of leaked data: What’s the impact of the leak? SecurityAffairs – hacking, data scraping). Next steps.

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Data Matters

JULY 16, 2020

relates to the alleged tracking of personal data by Google of 4.4 million iPhone users and subsequent selling of the users’ data to advertisers, without the users’ knowledge and consent. The class action brought against Google by Richard Lloyd, the former editor of consumer protection rights group “Which?”, to the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

Stashes of breaches like this are all over the place and they fuel an exchange ecosystem that replicates billions of records of personal data over and over again. Websites like these are taken down for a simple reason: The ecosystem of personal stashes exchanged with other parties fuels crime.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 19, 2020

The data consists of an extensive number of records containing personal information. I wanted to send you what’s been sent to me a give you the opportunity to respond before I notify my subscribers impacted in the incident. They were an HIBP subscriber monitoring their domain! Yet somehow, it frequently goes ignored.

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IT Governance

MAY 9, 2019

According to the ICO , HRMC’s failing was that it didn’t obtain explicit consent to record individuals’ voices (a form of biometric data, which the GDPR considers a special category of personal data ). However, organisations that process personal data should be aware that consent isn’t always the best lawful basis to rely on.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

Redacted example of client details. Redacted example of metadata information. Scams, Phishing, and Malware: It is common for unethical hackers and criminals on the Internet to use personal data to create trustworthy phishing emails. For examples of theft, do not let them into your home on first request.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

There's also no way to see if there are other active sessions, for example the way Twitter shows them : Further, changing the password doesn't invalidate existing sessions so as best as I can tell, if someone has successfully accessed someone else's Spoutible account there's no way to know and no way to boot them out again.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 4, 2019

Firstly, important concepts in e-privacy law – such as consent and transparency – must be interpreted in accordance with data protection law. Secondly, the use of cookies will in many cases involve the processing of personal data, which then implicates the GDPR. What are the key takeways?

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 19, 2019

The Belgian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) requested the Opinion, highlighting questions on the competence, tasks and powers of EU DPAs and the applicability of the GDPR’s cooperation and consistency mechanisms in those situations where both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive apply to the processing of personal data.

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IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. OpenSea has since warned that the information could be used to launch phishing attacks. Get started.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequency with which it's been suffering data breaches that have ultimately landed in my inbox. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2016 Time and time again since that poll, a pulse check of subscriber sentiment has returned similar results.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Users can monetise their YouTube channel if they create original content, have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

On October 28, 2017, the Turkish Data Protection Authority (the “ Authority ”) published an important regulation supplementing the Law on Protection of Personal Data (the “ Data Protection Law ”), namely the Regulation on the Deletion, Destruction and Anonymization of Personal Data (the “ Regulation ”).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

I decided to take that advice and put myself in the shoes of a customer and came up with a list of activities I’d like to see happen in the event that my person data was compromised in a breach. Visit this page to subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest data security research, insights from our blogs and other resources.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In part 2 of the series, I want to talk about data ownership and minimisation and this is all about reducing the impact on individuals and organisations alike when things do go wrong. Who Owns Our Personal Data? The owner can request the organisation provide them with a copy of their data ("right of access").

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 18, 2021

These first fines are likely to form the ICO’s “baseline” for cybersecurity and other personal data breach enforcement over the years to come. Subscribe and stay updated. Litigation is likely in these situations and regulatory findings in MPNs may provide ammunition to claimants. The BA MPN is available here. Share on Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Via numerous front-end Web sites, each of these mini credit bureaus serve thousands or tens of thousands of people who work in the above mentioned industries and who have the ability to pull credit and other personal data on Americans. In other cases, it’s trivial for anyone to sign up for these services.

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Data Matters

JUNE 1, 2022

process and use personal data. For example, end users must be able to easily (i) change any preinstalled and default settings, (ii) switch between and subscribe to different services, and (iii) access and port their data. Among others, the obligations and prohibitions limit gatekeepers’ ability to.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2013

Under Section 36 of the DPA, individuals who process personal data for their personal, family or household affairs are exempt from complying with the obligations of the DPA with respect to such processing. The ICO’s expectations in terms of “reasonable steps” will depend on the circumstances.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

In this interview, I pick her brain on cyber incident response more generally, gaining her expert insight into the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’, along with practical, real-life examples. For example, not so long ago, LockBit [an infamous ransomware gang] got taken down. Is it normal if someone logs in from a Russian IP address, for example?

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 11, 2018

French law requires to place a short-form information notice on personal data collection form (e.g., registration form) specifying the identity of the data controller, the purposes of the processing, whether it is mandatory or not to provide the data, and the data subjects’ rights. The website challenges.fr

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Although the Specification is not a mandatory regulation, it nonetheless has a key implementing role in relation to China’s Cyber Security Law (“Cyber Security Law”) in respect of protecting personal information in China. To subscribe to posts from Data Protection Report , please click here.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 7, 2024

Demographic or contact data linked only to other demographic or contact data—such as a data set linking first and last names to residential street addresses, email addresses to first and last names, or customer loyalty membership records linking first and last names to phone numbers—would not constitute covered personal identifiers.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. But that ridiculous example is nothing compared to the amount of traction some misattributions get.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. Meanwhile, you can subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. million people.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

” The LAPSUS$ Telegram channel has grown to more than 45,000 subscribers, and Microsoft points to an ad LAPSUS$ posted there offering to recruit insiders at major mobile phone providers, large software and gaming companies, hosting firms and call centers. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

By this time in the scam routine is no longer mentioned as users would visit a hookup website, inadvertently install a browser extension, or subscribe to paid services. For example, the currency of the reward would change depending on the user’s location. About UNICC. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Last week, victims of Yahoo’s data breaches between 2012 and 2016 were given good news, with the proposed settlement from the US class-action lawsuit heading to a judge for final approval. million (about £91 million) in compensation to users whose personal data was leaked. Yahoo, now owned by Verizon, has agreed to pay $117.5

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, working with the secure element of a mobile phone. Data privacy; e-wallets, devices and transaction systems should not have direct access to sensitive personal data. For example, if a consumer offers to deposit €100,000 of CBDC into a bank, the digital cash on the device doesn’t care who is carrying it.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

of the e-Privacy Directive, EU Member States must ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is allowed only if the subscriber or user has provided consent. According to Article 5.3

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I scrolled through the 10M+ rows of data (many records spanned multiple rows due to line returns), and my eyes fell on a fellow Aussie who for the purposes of this exercise we'll call "EM", being the initials of her first and last name. There are over 1.8k That's something most people will still want to know.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For example: consumer law; competition law; product safety laws; equality laws; and regulations governing medical devices. The ICO has published 3 key pieces of guidance: Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data protection (2017) Explaining decisions made with AI (June 2020) Guidance on AI and data protection (July 2020).

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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Information Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UK consumers threaten data breach backlash – Computer Weekly, 5 December 2018. “Seven out of 10 UK consumers and two-thirds, on average, around the world would stop doing business with a brand that suffers a breach of users’ financial or personal data. Who steals personal data and how do they make money from it?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Our ‘catches of the month’ feature provides examples of recent phishing scams, showing you the latest tactics that scammers use and what you should do to keep yourself and your organisation secure. Now consider the fact that you are much more likely to find a porn watcher than a Netflix subscriber. million UK subscribers in 2020.

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