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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

In 2015, construction began on a dedicated facility located a 12-acre business incubator campus, called the Velocity Collaboration Center , in Sterling Heights, a Detroit suburb. Michigan has developed a robust cybersecurity community focused on connecting the interests of the cyber, automotive, defense and aerospace industries,” Mason says.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

While industry was generally strongly opposed to AB 375 — just as it opposed the ballot initiative — it acquiesced in the compromise legislation because the text of the law could be amended more readily than the text of an initiative approved by the state’s voters. A consumer may request this information twice in a 12-month period.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Protections Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

While industry was generally strongly opposed to AB 375 — just as it opposed the ballot initiative — it acquiesced in the compromise legislation because the text of the law could be amended more readily than the text of an initiative approved by the state’s voters. A consumer may request this information twice in a 12-month period.

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EU: Competition policy in the digital era (Part 1)

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This includes making markets work better for consumers, business and society, supporting the industry to adapt to globalization, climate change and digital transitions. 1] COMP/2020/16 of November 2011. [2] Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is but one of the aspects of digitisation. Stay tuned. 16 of the study).

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

And so much has changed in the past few years – for me personally, and certainly for the industries to which I pay the most attention. ” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

To date, the Commission has adopted 12 such decisions. Withdrawal from the EU means that we stand to lose the institutional platform from which we have exercised that influence. It would no doubt be totally unfair to suggest any smoke-and-mirrors exercise to confuse the fact of the centrality of EU law now and in the future.

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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

Government’s cybersecurity approach – in particular, as seen in the 2011 International Strategy for Cyberspace , calls for increased U.S. The final Report on this assessment found that 12 agencies of the 96 agencies had “high risk” programs, meaning that their cybersecurity tools were not implemented or sufficiently deployed.