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What Is Data Minimisation? Definition & Examples

IT Governance

Data minimisation is a key part of information security and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in particular. Its principles are at the heart of effective data protection practices, and are intended to prevent privacy breaches and minimise the damage when security incidents occur.

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Information Security vs Cyber Security: The Difference

IT Governance

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. That’s because, in their most basic forms, they refer to the same thing: the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. What is information security? There are two sub-categories of information security.

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UK ICO Issues Updated Guidance on AI and Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

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.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

The GDPR puts forth a litany of rules for how organizations in and outside of Europe handle the personal data of EU residents. The details of any organization’s plan to become fully GDPR compliant will vary based on the data the organization collects and what it does with that data.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

The GDPR provision that may keep IT security teams busiest is Article 32, which requires “a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing” of personal data. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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CHINA: Clarifications of data classification and grading requirements

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Under the Data Security Law, organisations are required to classify the data they process according to their level of significance. Where some types of data have multiple categories (e.g. Data grading.

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China issues Personal Information Security Specification

Data Protection Report

On 29 December 2017 the Standardization Administration of China issued an Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification ?GB/T In this blog post we address the key requirements of the Specification in relation to collecting personal data from either employees or third parties.