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Federal Privacy Commissioner Published Guidance on What Is “Sensitive” Personal Information

Data Protection Report

On May 16, 2022, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) released an Interpretation Bulletin (the “Bulletin”) on what it considers to be “sensitive” personal information under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). In other cases, combined personal information (e.g.,

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2023 – 79,729,271 Records Breached

IT Governance

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

Classifications of Encryption Types To avoid confusion, let’s examine the different ways ‘type’ can be applied to encryption and how we will cover them in this article: Encryption category types will explain the overarching and basic categories of classification for encryption, including the two most important: symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

This includes Active Directory for identity and access management, Windows Defender, Azure cloud security services such as Security Center, Key Vault, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection and Application Gateway for protecting Web applications. The Splunk platform is used by many to perform security analytics and for SIEM.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Identify and protect special category data When inventorying data, organizations should make a note of any especially sensitive data that requires extra protection. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2

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Privacy as a “Fundamental Right” Clouds Smart Regulation

Data Matters

There is a lot going on with privacy around the world. The reason for this potentially counter-productive state of regulatory affairs is the failure of any polity to confront the meaning of privacy – or more precisely, the specific privacy harms that privacy regulation is meant to protect against.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in June 2022 – 34.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Theft of computers at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (9,500) Indian police linked to hacking campaign to frame activists (unknown) TridentCare confirms data breach after criminal breaks into office and steals hard drives (unknown). Cyber attacks.