The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To provide even further insight into the data safety and privacy practices of app developers, researchers at Incogni conducted a study of the top 500 paid and top 500 free Google Play Store apps. Among the app categories, shopping, business, and food & drink were found to be sharing the most user data. Greediest data harvesters.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 4, 2020

On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (the group behind the ballot initiative that inspired the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”)) announced that it had collected over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) for the November 2020 ballot. Data Breach Liability Provision.

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Privacy Data breaches Sales Passwords 75

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Dentons Privacy Community met on September 15, 2021 to discuss how to approach international data transfers in Asia, in particular Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and China. Last year, three overlapping privacy-related laws were consolidated into the Revised Personal Information Protection Act. Below are the key takeaways. South Korea.

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Privacy Personal data Data Privacy Government 98

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Authors: Sarah Birkett , Nicholas Boyle The Australian Attorney-General has published the (long-awaited) results of the Privacy Act review. The report recommends a number of changes to the Australian privacy framework, including various changes to Australia’s core privacy legislation, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 18, 2022

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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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies. In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But in order for businesses to maintain compliance with major privacy laws , they have to have security measures in place before an attack. China’s new data privacy law just went into effect in November 2021. Also Read: China’s Data Privacy Law Poses Challenge for International Companies. Detailed privacy notices.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

11, 2023 — Recent research by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found UK law firms are increasingly appealing targets for cybercriminals interested in stealing and exploiting client data. Businesses have limited visibility over every aspect of external threats, but updating your security where you have control is a priority.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

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).

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During the week of October 4, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law bills amending the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), California’s data breach notification law and California’s data security law. Genetic Data: California Data Breach Notification and Data Security Law Amendment Bill.

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Privacy Insurance Security Data breaches 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2018

On the heels of the sweeping Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that took effect on May 25, 2018, the state of California moved quickly, passing its version of a consumer privacy law a month later, on June 28th. While the push for privacy is nothing new, privacy advocates, businesses and lawmakers in the U.S.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

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Privacy e-Discovery Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 97

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. Even the world’s biggest businesses are not free from GDPR woes.

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IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome to our June 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 80 security incidents during the month, resulting in 34,908,053 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken down into categories. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news….

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 98

Data Protection Report

MAY 3, 2022

The Guidelines consider in detail common social media interfaces that present the content of privacy policies and collect consent in ways which substantively violate the GDPR requirements, while still pretending to formally comply with them (these methods now termed “dark patterns”) and explain how the GDPR applies in this context.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Can visibility be the key to better privacy? Technology innovation creates business value for organizations, but also new challenges for data privacy and protection. However, in some cases, a serious downside occurs when privacy has been sacrificed to fast track the digital transformation. Wed, 12/09/2020 - 05:45.

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IT Governance

JULY 4, 2023

IT Governance found 79 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023, accounting for 14,353,113 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cloud storage security issues refer to the operational and functional challenges that organizations and consumers encounter when storing data in the cloud. Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data.

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Cloud Risk Security Encryption 124

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’. According to its breach notification , Mr. Cooper detected suspicious activity on its network on 31 October.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The law outlines a set of data privacy rights for users and a series of principles for the processing of personal data. The only data processing activities exempt from the GDPR are national security or law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. However, GDPR compliance is not necessarily a straightforward matter.

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Data Matters

JUNE 26, 2018

On June 25, 2018, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced that a potentially significant privacy initiative is eligible for the Nov. If passed, the ballot initiative — the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — would immediately make sweeping changes to California’s privacy laws. 6 general election ballot.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario. Data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Despite all this, there is one tech category that has held up fairly well: Cybersecurity. Just today, security and compliance automation firm Drata announced a $200 million Series C funding round that brings the company’s valuation to $2 billion, doubling its $1 billion valuation from its Series B round last year.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 85 security incidents during the month, resulting in 99,243,757 compromised records. You can find the full list below, broken into categories. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rather than bringing substantial changes to the existing China data privacy framework, the PIPL helpfully consolidates and clarifies obligations on processing of personal information at a national law level. To be clear, this is not China’s own GDPR.

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IT Governance

APRIL 18, 2023

Data minimisation is a key part of information security and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in particular. Its principles are at the heart of effective data protection practices, and are intended to prevent privacy breaches and minimise the damage when security incidents occur. What is data minimisation?

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 18, 2020

With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement deadline only a month away, Chief Privacy Officers still must grapple with significant uncertainties about what exactly the law requires. Third, it is now clear that Congress will not rush in to preempt the CCPA with a federal privacy law this year. By Jim Halpert.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 10, 2019

Chambers USA recently released its 2019 rankings and we are pleased to announce that Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Cybersecurity (PaC) practice once again received Band 1 recognition by Chambers USA. Chambers noted that PaC “[r]emains one of the country’s preeminent privacy and data security practices.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Syxsense Secure. Stop breaches with one endpoint security solution. Pre-built templates keep organizations secure without needing large teams and specialists.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

The changes specifically introduce the following: Broader scope of prohibited content: in addition to the currently existing categories (e.g., defaming national integrity and unity), the new law prohibits publication of additional categories of content (e.g., New Personal Data Protection Law and Data Security Law.

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Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375). This legislation was enacted on an extraordinarily accelerated timeframe as part of compromise with the sponsor of a comparable privacy ballot initiative, which had qualified to be placed before state voters on Election Day in November 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses are facing immense security challenges and these are the same as those of mid-size or larger enterprises. Organizations are confronted with a severe security threats landscape, and it is critical that they have the ability to prevent, detect and respond to these threats in a timely manner.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Cloud computing services, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), each have unique security concerns. IaaS involves virtualized computing resources over the internet, with users responsible for securing the operating system, applications, data, and networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A holistic, cloud-based cybersecurity solution helps organizations quickly and easily increase their security posture, and comprehensively address the key areas of vulnerability by providing effective data classification, protection and access strategies to secure even the most sensitive data in a multi cloud or hybrid environment.

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