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Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Suspends Consultation on Transborder Data Flows

Hunton Privacy

As reported by Bloomberg Law , on May 24, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) suspended its public consultation on transborder data flows (the “Consultation”). Currently, transborder data flows outside of Canada rely on the accountability principle, based on guidance from the OPC produced in 2009.

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Uber fined £385,000 for data breach cover-up

IT Governance

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Uber £385,000 for a data breach affecting 35 million people, including 2.7 The crooks also accessed the personal data of 3.7 Meanwhile, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €600,000 (£530,000) under its own pre-GDPR legislation. million British customers.

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

eSecurity Planet

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. The data is protected against cybercriminals as well as others who are not supposed to see it.

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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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InfoGov Links Of The Week 03-31-2017

Information is Currency

Digital transformation drives interest in governance, predictive analytics. A New Approach Due To Data Governance Due to IoT. GDPR Is Looming: How ECM Can Help Businesses Meet the Challenge. GDPR Is Looming: How ECM Can Help Businesses Meet the Challenge. The Right Way to Make Your Data Deliver.

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Weekly podcast: Dixons Carphone, Fashion Nexus, Yale and Alaska

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. million.

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CIPL Responds to Canada’s Reframed Consultation on Transfers for Processing

Hunton Privacy

In the long term, and under a revised data protection law in Canada, the OPC believes that transfers of personal information across borders should be protected through an accountability model backed up by appropriate enforcement authority.

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