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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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Hong Kong’s data privacy law reform may come in 2023

Data Protection Report

The reform of Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) In our earlier post in 2020, we reported that the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau published a discussion paper (the Discussion Paper ) seeking the Legislative Council’s Panel on Constitutional Affairs’ (the Panel ) views on proposed changes to the PDPO.

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. And when a breach does happen, then our personal data is the main target.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record. How do we protect that data, knowing that no solution is 100% fail-safe? January 11th, 2022 at 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST, 7:00 pm GMT

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2020 Predictions: New Challenges for Data Privacy and the 5G Hackathon

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause. So what’s in store for data privacy and the rollout of of 5G technology?

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Bill C-11: Canada proposes new data privacy legislation

Data Protection Report

On November 17, 2020, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Navdeep Bains, tabled proposed legislation in Parliament that aims to overhaul Canada’s data privacy law. The CPPA would create new data privacy obligations and maintain PIPEDA’s principles.