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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. First American Financial Corp.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan.

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Big California Privacy News: Legislative and Enforcement Updates

Data Matters

Privacy never sleeps in California. In recent days and as California’s legislative session comes to a close, there have been a number of significant legislative and regulatory developments in the state, each of which will likely (again) change the privacy landscape in California and, by extension, the rest of the country.

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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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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. Certain sectors, such as banking, financial services, health, and insurance have their own data protection and privacy requirements. Conclusion.

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Expect More Spam Calls and SIM-Card Scams: 400 Million Phone Numbers Exposed

Adam Levin

So, we can call this a Facebook privacy facepalm legacy attack. It’s a sad state of Facebook privacy news fatigue that the urge is so strong to create privacy fail sub-categories—but there you have it. The information is at least a year old, which was when Facebook stopped allowing developers to have user phone numbers.

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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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