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Data Privacy Day 2009

Hunton Privacy

Wednesday, January 28, 2009, marks the second annual international Data Privacy Day, which brings together a broad coalition of privacy professionals from both the private and public sectors, as well as corporations, academics and policymakers, with the goal of promoting awareness and collaboration on a variety of data privacy issues.

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Hong Kong’s Reform of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “PDPO”): Bridging Troubled Waters

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The PDPO Review Paper represents the first proposal for reform of the PDPO since the consultation in 2009-10 that led to the introduction of Hong Kong’s direct marketing controls in 2013. From a global perspective, data protection regulation has moved forward significantly since that time, so a review of the PDPO is timely.

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IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

Security Affairs

IBM invented FHE in 2009, but only recently it is becoming practical thanks to algorithmic progresses. . “In This has revolutionized security and data privacy and how we outsource computation to untrusted clouds,” states IBM. The FHE toolkits are been released on GitHub for macOS and iOS.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. FHE enables data to remain encrypted even as it is processed and analyzed, whether that’s in the cloud or in third-party environments.

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Sophie Sayer on the IT Governance Partner Programme

IT Governance

Tell us a bit about what you do for IT Governance I’ve been head of channel since December 2019, though have worked for the Group since October 2009. We are the market leader in data privacy and cyber security risk management solutions, so it makes sense to partner with us. What is it that makes IT Governance special?

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Why you need to implement BS 10012

IT Governance

Introduced in 2009 to help organisations manage personal information and comply with data protection laws, BS 10012 was until recently a niche standard, but it has garnered fresh attention since the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) took effect. Improve the structure and focus of your data privacy management.

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Developments in Health Privacy and Cybersecurity Policy and Regulation: OCR Issues Cybersecurity Warnings and New Health Data Legislation Is Introduced

Data Matters

Relatedly, as issues around data in the healthcare industry grow, Congress continues to contemplate modernization of the HIPAA—which originally passed over 25 years ago and has not been substantively updated since 2009 (or when the iPhone was barely 2 years old).