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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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2020

On June 24, 2020, the Washington State Attorney General (“Washington AG”) announced that it had settled an enforcement action against the owners of the “We Heart It” social media platform for alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the Washington State Consumer Protection Act.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Critical vulnerability could have allowed threat actors to hijack any Facebook account Meta has addressed a critical security vulnerability and rewarded the security researcher who reported it under Facebook’s bug bounty programme. The ICO has issued an enforcement notice and a warning to the Home Office.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

Other measures proposed and adopted by the US authorities include restrictions on the government’s use of such spyware, export controls, and sanctions to promote accountability. The visa restrictions are part of a broader initiative launched by the US government aimed at countering the proliferation of commercial spyware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. It really boils down to your specific needs.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

While this guide focuses on sanitizing and validating inputs, other elements such as the server’s configurations must also be taken into account to secure forms. As a result, stealing cookies allows attackers to be able to impersonate the victims by providing them with immediate access to the targeted accounts without login.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“The misuse of commercial spyware threatens privacy and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. The United States stands on the side of human rights and fundamental freedoms and will continue to promote accountability for individuals involved in commercial spyware misuse.” The policy underscores the U.S.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

This is the seventh post in a series on privacy by Andrew Pery. You might also be interested in: Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. Privacy by Design: The Intersection of Law and Technology. What Do the GDPR and new Privacy Laws Mean for U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

), and finally with stealing not only your searches and browsing data, but also affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites — a capability that is easily leveraged for targeted spear phishing, account takeover and credential extraction — all using this powerful network of millions of infected computers worldwide!”

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Collibra

JANUARY 26, 2024

Snowflake recently announced the launch of Snowflake Horizon, their built-in governance solution that unifies compliance, security, privacy, interoperability and access capabilities in the Snowflake Data Cloud. Data access rules result in column-level masking policies on Snowflake that can be applied within a table or view.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In fact, we’ve seen some frightening ones play out already: Google’s record GDPR fine – France’s data privacy enforcement agency hit the tech giant with a $57 million penalty in early 2019 – more than 80 times the steepest fine the U.K.’s s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable. CipherTrust DDC is pre-built with more than 250 infotypes (entities), covering the vast majority of regional and global data privacy laws and regulations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With nothing more than an employee’s face needed to gain access, accounts can be set up and access levels changed relatively easily, without the hassle or insecurity of improperly saved passwords. It can also identify objects, texts, and scenes by tagging them through scalable deep learning technology.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Specifically this year both companies gave greater focus to enabling governance of data policies and tagging as well as better lineage harvesting. . Snowflake includes an extensive set of native governance capabilities, expressed through SQL, for tag and data policy management. Collibra Protect. Data Quality and Observability.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He was “tagged,” thus allowing him access to them, and others were sent to his phone. Should discoverability of photos be extended to photos where the party is “tagged” in the photo or should privacy concerns weigh heavier here? That plaintiff did not take the pictures himself is of no import. Pollari, 107 A.D.3d

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

To begin with, as the memo acknowledges, it will be challenging for many agencies to develop an accurate approach to categorizing data and tagging data. Reflected in the federal zero-trust strategy is the calling out of agencies’ data categorization directly fueling this maturity characteristic.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero uncovered the weakness, which is connected to unauthorized access to freed memory, possibly allowing attackers to corrupt or change sensitive data. Attackers might get full access to Confluence instances by creating illegal administrator accounts.

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Gimmal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Whether it’s your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your email accounts, a large portion of content and records is essentially useless. Most likely, you’ll save it to one of three places: your desktop, the root of your OneDrive/Box/Dropbox account, or your network user share.

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Collibra

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This helps drive greater transparency, accountability and auditability. Increasingly, they require granular details and comprehensive audit trails that demonstrate transparent oversight of data storage, collection, usage, and privacy coupled with lineage. For instance, regulators and auditors want more than just reports.

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Collibra

APRIL 18, 2022

What is its privacy level? You can tag the image with more keywords of who captured it, the place or the event, or the subject of the photo. With metadata, this tagging helps uniquely identify the image so that you can share it with the right people and for the right purpose. Where is it stored? . When was it created? .

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erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

Some suggest the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which takes effect January 1, 2020, sets a precedent other states will follow by empowering consumers to set limits on how companies can use their personal information. California recently passed a law that gives residents the right to control the data companies collect about them.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2022

Others have come into sharper focus relatively recently: a global effort to create new data privacy laws, a post-pandemic expectation by customers to know them individually across all touchpoints, and increased attention on any racial, gender-based, or socioeconomic bias in AI models. Data governance and privacy. Read the eBook.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) particularly affect sectors such as finance, retail, healthcare and pharmaceutical/life sciences.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

” It answers questions like who created the data, what is its privacy level, where it is stored, why it is in a specific format, when it was created, or how it is stored. You can tag the image with more keywords of who captured it, the place or the event, or the subject of the photo. Adopt the metadata standards.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is caused by: Multiple first-mile reviews to ensure no adverse business impacts, including privacy concerns, data classification, business continuity and regulatory compliance (and most of these are manual). Manual evidence collection for operation and resiliency reviews (such as supporting cloud operations and business continuity).

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Collibra

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Ownership and accountability . As the data is ingested, it is linked to policies, which can in turn be linked to Google Cloud policy tags. These tags can be used to write down the policy to Google Cloud Data Catalog, IAM and BigQuery. More specially, CDOs often face three distinct challenges while migrating: .

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

An important data protection concept for all organizations is zero trust : by limiting access and privileged accounts and walling off your most critical assets with tools like microsegmentation , a network incursion doesn’t have to become a headline-making data breach. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cam4’s Misconfiguration & Data Breach (2020) Cam4 holds the record for the greatest data breach of all time , with 10 billion compromised accounts. With over 10 million daily users and 122 billion files shared, MEGA, recognized for user-controlled end-to-end encryption, was at risk of privacy breaches and unwanted data access.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 19, 2011

While much of the attention of the privacy policy community in Washington, D.C. These individual pieces are called “tagged data elements,” because each unit of data is accompanied by a mandatory “metadata tag” that describes the attributes, provenance, and required security protections of the data.”. business and consumers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

com , are hidden behind domain privacy protection. ” Those services are meant to provide anonymity when customers are doing things such as automating ad clicks on platforms like Google Adsense and Facebook ; generating new PayPal accounts; sneaker bot activity; credential stuffing attacks ; and different types of social media spam.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. That's non-trivial.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Limiting use of a device’s administrator account where possible for greater personal device security. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) employs a shared key authentication mechanism and the RC4 encryption algorithm to encrypt data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In essence, paths in Wildland are like tags, which allow you to organize, sort, search through, etc., LW: How will Wildland contribute, going forward, to helping better preserve individual privacy and protect sensitive data? With this increased agency comes the possibility of improved privacy and security.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have come to terms on consumer privacy, an issue the FTC formally raised in an eight-count complaint earlier this year. Facebook claimed that when users deactivated or deleted their accounts, their photos and videos would be inaccessible. Facebook claimed that it complied with the U.S.-

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. She onboards new corporate subscribers, handles masses of tickets for API and domain subscribers and does all the accounting and tax work. "Have I been pwned?"

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