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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The complaint alleged that the company’s data handling practices also resulted in unauthorized disclosures of personal information.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In a recent study , IDC predicted the global datasphere will more than double in size from 2022 to 2026, and that 80% of that data will be unstructured. Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable.

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China: Navigating China episode 16: New data lifecycle guidelines for financial institutions in China – detailed assessments, additional security measures and some data localisation introduced

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In practice this will require financial institutions to assess and classify/tag financial data against the five levels, and apply the relevant compliance obligations to each level accordingly. Data localisation: level 5 data (i.e. levels 1 to 4), the general principal is that such data should be stored in Mainland China.

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How Data Governance Protects Sensitive Data

erwin

When an organization knows what data it has, it can define that data’s business purpose. And knowing the business purpose translates into actively governing personal data against potential privacy and security violations. Do You Know Where Your Sensitive Data Is? Who is authorized to use it and how?

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

The Last Watchdog

Most of the people I know professionally and personally don’t spend a lot of time contemplating the true price we pay for the amazing digital services we’ve all become addicted to. I’ll use myself as a prime example. Each operates a closed platform designed to voraciously gather, store and monetize user data.

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GDPR personal data explained

Collibra

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 25, 2018, requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of European Union (EU) citizens, for transactions that occur within EU Member States. The GDPR also regulates the exportation of personal data outside the EU. Location data .