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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Top 7 Data Governance Blog Posts of 2018

erwin

Historically most organizations have approached data governance in isolation and from the former category. GDPR went into effect for businesses trading with the European Union, including hefty fines for noncompliance with its data collection, storage and usage standards. for Financial Services. Data Governance 2.0

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The Privacy Officers’ New Year’s Resolutions

Data Protection Report

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will determine the validity of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) ( Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximillan Schrems ) whilst the General Court of the EU will consider the future of Privacy Shield (La Quadrature du Net v Commission). In the U.S.,

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

These records are typically organized by grouping them by function or department and then described as either an individual record or grouped together into a record category. Countries and organizations within the European Union (EU), must comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 1.

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EU: Binding Corporate Rules are Generating Greater Interest

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The prevailing trend so far has been to use the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) approved by the European Commission to legitimise any personal data transfers from the EU to third countries. For many multinationals this has led to reconsidering their framework for transferring personal data from the EU to third countries.

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The Privacy Officers’ New Year’s Resolutions

Data Protection Report

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will determine the validity of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) ( Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximillan Schrems ) whilst the General Court of the EU will consider the future of Privacy Shield (La Quadrature du Net v Commission). In the U.S.,

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UK Government sets out proposals to shake up UK data protection laws

Data Protection Report

In August, the Government announced that it intended to “seize the opportunity” afforded by the UK’s exit from the European Union to makes some changes (see our blog The UK Government unveils its post-Brexit plans to shake up data protection laws | Data Protection Report ).