DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR. Deceased’s data.

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Personal data Compliance Computer and Electronics IoT 96

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. The Data Breach Notification Act of 2011 (the “Feinstein Bill”), is the fifth such bill introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

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Data breaches Computer and Electronics Data Privacy Personal data 40

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) changed the game. Legacy filing systems were not built to keep track of the personal data of specific individuals primarily to be in compliance with the many data protection regulations popping up around the world. Related: GDPR and the new privacy paradigm.

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Personal data Privacy Data Privacy Unstructured data 237

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 28, 2016

On June 17, 2016, the National Privacy Commission (the “Commission”) of the Philippines released draft guidelines entitled, Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“IRR”), for public consultation. The IRR defines personal data as personal information, sensitive information and privileged information.

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Data Privacy Privacy Personal data Computer and Electronics 53

eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber last year. Conceal the breach for more than a year, and pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data (sure they did) and keep quiet about the breach. The post Uber’s Response to Data Breach? Their response?

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Data breaches Cybersecurity IT Archiving 43

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 25, 2012

On April 19, 2012, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) issued a press release detailing its enforcement agenda for 2012. Scrutiny will focus on the data collection practices of both mobile operators and mobile application providers.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Data breaches IT Personal data 40

Archive Document Data Storage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As well as a financial hit resulting from a data breach, your business’ reputation would also be damaged beyond repair in the eyes of your clients and stakeholders. It is more important than ever to ensure that your unwanted or duplicate data (both paper and electronic) is securely destroyed. Medical data.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Archiving Data breaches Paper 40

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores.

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 55

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. The security breach was a result of a vulnerability in the software for their websites: a program called Apache Struts.

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Personal data Computer and Electronics Privacy Data breaches 91

IT Governance

MAY 3, 2018

This week, we discuss a new deal between the NHS and Microsoft, the financial cost of Equifax’s massive data breach, and a jail sentence for a hacker who altered prison records. Equifax’s huge data breach, which compromised the personal data of 147.9 Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that.

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Computer and Electronics Insurance Data breaches Information Security 50

eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

While we were preparing to eat turkey and stuff ourselves with various goodies last week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) provided an important guideline for compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With the introduction of GDPR, data protection compliance becomes increasingly risk-based.

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Cloud GDPR Personal data Compliance 40

Data Protection Report

MAY 15, 2019

In a significant recent decision, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) altered the regulatory landscape when moving personal information between affiliated companies and across Canada’s border for data processing or storage purposes. In fact, this was the approach taken by Equifax Canada.

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IT Computer and Electronics Cloud Privacy 40

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UPMC was filed by a group of employees of the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (“UPMC”), alleging a failure in data security resulted in a data breach and the theft of the personal and financial information of UPMC’s 62,000 employees. LEXIS 6072199 (Pa.

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Data breaches Computer and Electronics Risk Security 40

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

We have just seen 8,801,171,594 breached data records in one month. Indeed, it bears reminding relatively small breaches can often be the most damaging – such as an email gaffe this month in which the identities of 250 abuse survivors in Northern Ireland were exposed. Arbonne MLM data breach exposes users’ passwords (3,527).

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. In case you missed it, you may also be interested in our first quarterly review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 112

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. 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?

Privacy 94

Privacy e-Discovery Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 94

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. 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.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Data scraping or web scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile datasets containing personal information.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 79

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

*This article was adapted from “Global Overview,” appearing in The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review (7th Ed. Even the European Data Protection Board conceded that data protection measures, like the EU General Data Protection Regulation, “do not hinder measures taken in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

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