Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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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Personal data Privacy Marketing Data collection 49

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2018

And, apropos of the Marriott breach, they are finding creative ways to cut down on the volume of sensitive data that they need to store and protect. Reality #2: Any data point you share with a company will in all likelihood eventually be hacked, lost, leaked, stolen or sold — usually through no fault of your own. TO INDIVIDUALS.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2019

On 22 August 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced the implementation of the Online Protection of Children’s Personal Data Regulation (????????????), (“the Regulation”) which came into force on 1 October 2019. In contrast with COPPA in the U.S., Consequences of Breach.

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Personal data Privacy Compliance Cybersecurity 68

IT Governance

JUNE 19, 2019

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires organisations to conduct a DPIA (data protection impact assessment) whenever processing is ‘likely to result in a high risk’ to the rights and freedoms of individuals. Before we crack on with our examples, we should explain how you can identify high-risk data processing activities.

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GDPR Personal data Risk Data breaches 73

Data Matters

MARCH 25, 2020

On 20 March 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB ”) released a statement on the protection of personal data in connection with measures that public authorities and business organizations (including employers) are taking to address the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Data protection principles.

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Personal data GDPR Communications Privacy 74

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

CyberNews reported the discovery of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data. Example of passport: Example of Australian passport: Example of driver’s license: Who had access to the bucket? About the author: CyberNews Team. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Personal data Phishing Access Risk 105

IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

Now that the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has been in effect for over a year, you’ve likely become acquainted with the term ‘personal data’ But what exactly does personal data mean? What is personal data? What is sensitive personal data? A home address.

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Personal data GDPR Encryption Compliance 75

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

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 Pictured: Example of Leaked Documents: Real Estate Tax Bill. million files.

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Personal data Data breaches Phishing Government 99

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

We all get spam emails, and while it’s annoying, it’s not usually anything to worry about. They can use it to trace online activity , find attached accounts and uncover personal data. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 billion people by using malware.

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Security Personal data Passwords Cybersecurity 188

IT Governance

JULY 18, 2018

Now that the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has been in effect for a couple of months, you’ve hopefully become acquainted with its definition of personal data: “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”. What is personal data? Location data. IP address.

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Personal data GDPR Encryption Compliance 74

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, the DPIA should include evidence of consideration of “less risky alternatives” to achieve the same purpose and why those alternatives were not chosen. The new content in this chapter relates to AI and inferences, affinity groups and special category data. A new annex has been added related to fairness in the AI lifecycle.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Article 13 of the GDPR states that: When you collect personal data directly from data subjects, you must provide a privacy notice at the time of collection. When you get personal data from another source, you must provide a privacy notice without undue delay, and within a month. Free of charge.

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GDPR Privacy Personal data Compliance 76

Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Victim’s phone numbers, which in most cases came with names and emails, were contained in personalized URLs used to redirect people to websites posing as local news outlets with fabricated comments of prominent local personalities about cryptocurrency investment platform that “helped them build a fortune”. About Group-IB.

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Personal data Blockchain Data breaches Phishing 100

AIIM

AUGUST 12, 2021

I like this definition because it talks about how Digital Ethics is a branch of overall Business Ethics and that its focus is on the ethical use of information throughout its entire lifecycle. Let's take a look at an example to help make the distinction clearer. Ask for permission to sell any personal data that has been stored.

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GDPR Privacy Personal data Government 197

IT Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HR plays a crucial role in an organisation’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. The department is full of personal data, whether it’s of employees, their next of kin or candidates responding to job adverts. Let’s take a look at five issues that HR must address when handling personal data.

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GDPR Personal data Compliance Communications 68

Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

On May 10, 2022, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring , after the law was previously passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in April. Connecticut is now the fifth state to enact a consumer privacy law.

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Privacy Personal data Sales B2B 118

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

That’s why we’ve dedicated this blog to explaining everything you need to know about data controllers and data processors. In a nutshell, a data controller is the person or group that decides when and why an organisation collects data. Responsibilities of the data processor. The basics.

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GDPR Retail Data collection Personal data 107

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2024

Last Watchdog engaged Forrester analyst Heidi Shey, the report’s lead author, in a discussion about how this could play out well, and contribute to an overall greater good. Traditionally it’s been about focusing inward on securing systems and data at the lowest possible cost, driven by compliance requirements.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The WP29 is a collective of EU data privacy supervisory authorities (“ DPAs ”). The WP29 guidance regarding personal data breaches has been long awaited. ransomware attack that encrypts the sole copy of relevant personal data); or (iii) unauthorized or accidental alteration of personal data.

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Personal data Data breaches GDPR Risk 60

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

30 of 2018 on the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). It will provide individuals with rights in relation to how their personal data can be collected, processed and stored. The PDPL also imposes new obligations upon businesses to ensure that the personal data they collect is kept secure. REGULATION.

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Personal data GDPR Compliance Risk 49

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 25, 2018

The key issue was the uncertainty of whether the result of an exam may or may not be considered a certain type of personal data. CAI provided him with 17 various documents in June 2010 but refused to release his examination script because it allegedly did not contain any personal data.

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Personal data Privacy Communications GDPR 40

IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In the context of ISO 27001, their interest regards your ISMS (information security management system) and your ability to prevent data breaches. Examples of interested parties. Suppliers and partners , because you have contractual arrangements about the way sensitive information is protected.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

On February 10, 2020, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Recommendation 1/2020 on data processing activities for direct marketing purposes (the “Recommendation”). Purchase , Rental and Enrichment of Personal Data. Data Minimization and Storage Limitation. Processing Purposes.

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Marketing Personal data GDPR Communications 109

Data Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

With issues around the collection and handling of personal data becoming the focus of increased scrutiny among regulators, policymakers, and consumers, interest has continued to grow among organizations to better understand and address privacy risk. Protect-P – Develop and implement appropriate data processing safeguards.

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Personal data Privacy Risk Cybersecurity 68

Data Protection Report

JUNE 6, 2023

This MPN and its accompanying annexes set out details of TikTok’s non-compliance with data protection law and the reasons why the ICO considered that a fine was appropriate. The requirement to detail “recipient or categories of recipients of the personal data” (Art 13(1)(e)): Vague, broad lists of categories of recipients are not sufficient.

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Privacy GDPR Personal data Compliance 97

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The CPA Rules, which are currently about 38 pages, address many recent issues in state data privacy regulation, including data profiling, data protection, automated data processing, biometric data, universal opt-out mechanisms and individual data rights.

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Privacy Personal data Data collection Compliance 78

Collibra

JANUARY 14, 2020

Data privacy isn’t about compliance — it’s about customers. Although much of the ink spilled around data privacy focuses on obeying regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), it’s a mistake to think about data privacy as a compliance exercise.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. The saucy yet studious LinkedIn profile for Marilyn Gaskell.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2019

But it wasn’t until Google was slapped with a €50 million (about £43 million) penalty that people started to wake up to the reality that the GDPR is real, and it is spectacular. Data protection under the GDPR looks like this: there are data subjects (that’s individuals like you and me), and we own our own personal data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2022

Threat actors are now using advanced methods to conduct intricate, personalized phishing and targeted attacks. For example, researchers at Group-IB uncovered a targeted worldwide scam campaign using over 121 popular brands as bait in over 90 countries, including the US, Canada, South Korea and Italy.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At issue was the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US through the use of Google Analytics. Cookies are only one of many ways to collect/transfer data, meaning Google Analytics and similar services can receive personal data through other means. www.website.com/pg1/?

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In particular, a company should pay attention to the following differences between PIPL and GDPR: Data localization. The law requires a controller to obtain standalone consent of data subjects under certain circumstances, for example, processing sensitive personal data and cross-border transfer of personal data.

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Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Personal data 97

IT Governance

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) superseded all laws based on the EU’s Data Protection Directive, including the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, on 25 May 2018. Below are just a few examples of how the Regulation creates specific challenges for different sectors: . GDPR complexities . Education .

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This might be the case, for example, if a power cut knocks out an organisation’s servers or if a Cloud hosting provider’s systems are disrupted. Although data availability often refers to these sorts of organisation-wide issues, it can also apply to individual circumstances. Confidentiality doesn’t only refer to personal data, though.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2020

The new guidelines are applicable to public and private companies for the processing of their employees’ personal data. For example, for recruitment purposes, pre-contractual measures or legitimate interests are acceptable legal bases for the CNIL. Categories of personal data. Retention periods.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

Some UK organisations will inevitably have to follow all the EU’s data protection rules because they will continue to process the personal data of individuals in the EU. Organisations have also spent many hours working out what legal basis each business process should rely on when personal data is processed.

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Privacy GDPR Personal data Computer and Electronics 156

IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2023

Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can mark the day, and the ways you can be more informed about data protection? Keep it private One of the key lessons regarding data protection is for individuals to understand the impact of handing over our personal information. Sometimes that’s necessary.

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