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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The scope of application of the Data Security Measures. The data covered by the Data Security Measures includes personal data and important data. Requirements for personal data collection statements.

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CIPL and AvePoint Release Global GDPR Readiness Report

Hunton Privacy

The impetuses for the survey were the many significant changes the GDPR will bring to companies’ management and processing of personal data, their privacy compliance programs and their IT systems and infrastructure. The GDPR replaces Directive 95/46/EC and will become applicable in May 2018.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

Perhaps, such lack of seriousness towards cybersecurity is the reason why businesses tend to suffer loss of users’ personal data, millions of dollars in resulting damages and, eventually, the loss of reputation in the industry. Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity.

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Article 29 Working Party Releases Opinion on EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

Hunton Privacy

The Working Party also published a Working Document on the justification for interferences with the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection through surveillance measures when transferring personal data (European Essential Guarantees). National Security Guarantees of the Privacy Shield. Background.

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HHS Issues New Model Privacy Notice for PHR Vendors

Hunton Privacy

PHR Data is grouped into two broad categories: (1) “Personal Data,” which is any PHR Data that identifies an individual, such as “names, health conditions, and other identifiers,” and (2) “Statistical Data,” which is PHR Data that is grouped so as to not connect to a specific individual and has names and other identifiers removed or altered.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

The May 25, 2018 effective date for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will no doubt be a central focus of 2018. Europe’s omnibus new framework for data protection law applies to (almost) all entities that collect and process EU personal data regardless of where the data are processed.