Data Breach Today

APRIL 30, 2020

As Google and Apple Prepare an Infrastructure, Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges Caution As Google and Apple prepare to offer a jointly developed infrastructure for contact-tracing smartphone apps to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group, is raising concerns about the risks involved.

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JUNE 26, 2023

New Bill Set to Penalize Disclosure of Data Protection Commission's Reprimands Irish Parliament has proposed changes to a new bill that would make it a criminal offense to disclose privacy reprimands issued by the Data Protection Commission.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Some Associations Want Certain Privacy Protections Stretched Even Further Major healthcare industry associations are urging federal regulators to finalize proposed changes to the HIPAA privacy rule that would bolster protections over reproductive healthcare data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Expert tips from Alan Calder Alan is the Group CEO of GRC International Group PLC, the parent company of IT Governance, and is an acknowledged international security guru. In addition, 14 US states now have their own data privacy laws, and GDPR-like legislation has proliferated across the world.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hospital Groups Say HHS Exceeded Its Authority by Issuing HIPAA-Related 'Rule' The American Hospital Association, along with three other organizations, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2018

Campaigners Seek Court Sanctions to End Blanket Communications Data Retention Privacy rights groups are calling on the Court of Justice of the European Union to clamp down on at least 17 EU governments that require domestic telecommunications firms to store all communications data, despite the court having ruled that such mass surveillance practices (..)

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Attorney General Group Says Third-Party Apps Threaten Reproductive Health Privacy Ten state attorneys general are urging Apple to address privacy and security gaps in third-party applications available on the App Store that track, collect or store reproductive health data.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 10, 2020

Federal Judge Still Considering Objections From Privacy Groups Six months after Facebook agreed to a landmark privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a $5 billion fine, a federal judge is still considering objections from advocacy groups that claim the deal doesn't go far enough.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 1, 2024

Expert Panelists Debate Impact of AI, Geopolitics and New Tactics in the Year Ahead In conjunction with a new report from CyberEd.io, Information Security Media Group asked some of the industry's leading cybersecurity and privacy experts about 10 top trends to watch in 2024.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Million Civil Penalty to Settle Privacy Investigation This week: more fallout from LockBit, Avast to pay $16.5M, Russia-linked group targeted mail servers, no indication that AT&T was hacked, analysis of a patched Apple flaw, Microsoft enhanced logging, an Android banking Trojan, North Korean hackers and a baking giant fell to ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Investigatory Powers Bill Will Allow Police to Collect More Data Proposed legislation called the "snoopers' charter," which would allow British intelligence agencies to collect data on a large scale, cleared further parliamentary scrutiny this week despite mounting criticism from privacy advocates, watchdog groups and technology companies.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 2, 2024

Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code of its Pegasus spyware, and an investigation finds widely available security cams are wildly insecure.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Bill Cassidy Considering Sector Feedback on Recent RFI America's largest hospital lobbying group says Congress should pressure health regulators into retracting a warning that online trackers embedded into patient portals could violate medical privacy law. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is seeking feedback for potential improvements to HIPAA.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Million Patients A recent attack by a Russian ransomware-as-a-service group that stole the personal information of 2.5 million patients of McLaren Health Care has triggered at least three proposed federal class action lawsuits in recent days, claiming the healthcare company failed to protect patient privacy.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Groups Ask Congress to Delay Finalization of Proposed Rule Seven healthcare and health IT industry groups are asking Congress to apply the brakes in issuing a final rule on interoperability, information blocking and health information exchange as required under the 21st Century Cures Act, citing concerns about privacy and other issues.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Committee Demands Answers About Consumers' Complaint Filed With FTC A Congressional committee is demanding Facebook provide answers concerning a complaint filed with the FTC alleging misleading privacy practices involving personal health information.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Google to Pay $170 Million Fine for YouTube's Privacy Violations Google will pay a $170 million fine to settle allegations that its YouTube subsidiary illegally collected personal information about children without their parents' consent, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Also: 9-Year Prison Sentence for Insider Trading Fueled by Password Theft This week, exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko's iPhone was found to contain NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a Russian businessman was sentenced for insider trading, more than 300,000 people were affected by an attack on See Tickets and period-tracking apps raised privacy (..)

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

October 12, 2023, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced a €600,000 fine for mass media company Groupe Canal+ for failing to comply with its commercial prospecting obligations applicable under the French Post and Electronic Communications Code and several obligations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Please join Sidley’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Group for a two-part discussion with UK government officials with a focus on data transfer and innovation. The post Sidley Privacy and Cybersecurity Roundtable appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog. UK Data Protection and Data Transfers – New Directions.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

An effort to reauthorize a controversial US surveillance program by attaching it to a must-pass spending bill has civil liberties advocates calling foul.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Multinational energy company Enel Group has been hit by Netwalker ransomware operators that are asking a $14 million ransom. Systems at the multinational energy company Enel Group has been infected with Netwalker ransomware , it is the second ransomware attack suffered by the energy giant this year. Enel S.p.A., Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Kaspersky researchers recently found evidence of an advanced threat group continuously updating its malware to evade security products, similar to a release cycle for developers. You also need platforms where you can share your knowledge and collaborate with other teams, which sometimes leads to catching APT groups. Defense in Depth.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

No longer might UK privacy pros feel obliged to wait for the publication of weirdly worded EDPB opinions. Enormous amounts of money have been spent in a belated acknowledgement of, in many cases, decades of under investment on privacy issues. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations. Was such a fine really appropriate?

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Civil Society Groups Ask PM Sunak to Reconsider Decryption Clause in Legislation The United Kingdom is the newest front in the long-fought conflict over end-to-end encryption, as a slew of civil society groups urge the prime minister not to back legislation empowering regulators to force online intermediaries into providing decrypted messages.

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AIIM

JANUARY 21, 2021

EU Privacy Shield framework, has created a wave of uncertainty for the legal industry. For the last five years, Privacy Shield has been central to alleviating that burden. The years since Schrems I have brought significant changes to how data privacy is viewed on the global stage. Ever since the U.S.-EU

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 28, 2022

On April 19, 2022, the California state legislature and an industry self-regulatory group each separately took steps to enhance online privacy protections for children who are not covered by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), which applies only to personal information collected online from children under the age of 13.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

AggregateIQ, hired by Vote Leave in 2016, failed to ensure authorisation to disclose UK voter information The Canadian data firm AggregateIQ (AIQ) broke privacy laws with some of the work it did for a leading pro-Brexit group in Britain and a number of US political campaigns, according to a watchdog’s official report.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Also: SAS Extortion, Skolkovo Foundation Hacked, Salesforce 'Ghost Sites' This week: Amazon settled privacy and cybersecurity investigations with the U.S. Plus, breaches at Onix Group and Toyota and a warning about Salesforce "ghost sites."

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JANUARY 30, 2020

Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that our Privacy and Cybersecurity practice has been named a “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360. Our market-leading global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice was recognized for its work on multiple headline-grabbing matters. To read more, click here ( Law360 subscription required).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Author: Keri Bennett As of February 1, 2023, two new sections of the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Ac t (“ FIPPA ”) and associated regulations are in force. What is a privacy breach? Public bodies will also be required to provide notice to the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner.

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Weissman's World

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We’ve talked a lot about the perils of using generative AI, which while improving is still prone to making stuff up and exposes our data to privacy problems if used as engine fodder. appeared first on Holly Group. Internal AI: Good. With Information Governance: Great! The post Public AI: Bad. Internal AI: Good.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Plus: Apple patches newly discovered flaws exploited by NSO Group spyware, North Korean hackers target security researchers, and more.

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