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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

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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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

Introduction to Data Protection Laws. Data protection laws, regulations, and rules control the collection, use, transfer, and storage of personal and sensitive information. Personal data protection requirements may be issued by federal, state (provincial), or local governments.

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CNIL Publishes Standard on HR Data Processing

Hunton Privacy

On April 15, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published the final version of its standard (“Referential”) concerning the processing of personal data for core Human Resources (“HR”) management purposes. That Referential was adopted following a public consultation launched by the CNIL on April 11, 2019.

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UK: A recent prosecution for a criminal offence under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 illustrates how forgiving our Data Protection Act 2018 is

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 11 March 2020, the ICO brought its first successful conviction under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“ FOIA ”). Parallels with the Data Protection Act 2018. It is not clear why this is the case or should be the case in this context but not for the personal data equivalent. Facts of the matter.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. And then there was the Cambridge Analytica scandal , which broke when the former employee and whistle-blower Christopher Wylie revealed to the Guardian that the political consulting firm had harvested 50 million Facebook users’ personal data and used it for political purposes.

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U.S. and Foreign Cybersecurity and Intelligence Agencies Recommend Measures to Counteract Threat of Russian Cyberattacks

Data Matters

Another example is the inclusion of remediation details for old vulnerabilities (including some dating back to 2018) and CISA stating that the Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (“APT”) actors have used these “common but effective” vulnerabilities for attacks.

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EDPB Releases Overview on the Implementation and Enforcement of the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

The main topics of these cases relate to the exercise of individual rights, consumer rights and data breaches. The EDPB has adopted 28 consistency opinions regarding the national lists of processing subject to a data protection impact assessment. 23 DPAs reported an increase in their regulatory budgets for 2018-2019.

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