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2024 Cybersecurity Laws & Regulations

eSecurity Planet

The landscape of cybersecurity laws and regulations today is set to undergo significant changes, impacting businesses, government entities, and individuals alike. These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. It made sense. Very probably.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Through public and commercial development of advanced encryption methods, organizations from sensitive government agencies to enterprise companies can ensure protected communications between personnel, devices, and global offices. Before computer science, two individuals could use an identical key to unlock a shared mailbox or gate.

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Draft Released in the Philippines Implementing Rules for the Data Privacy Act

Hunton Privacy

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. Consent of the data subject has to be evidenced by written, electronic or recorded means.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

million) Wyoming Department of Health leaking data online (164,021) Maine government website displayed mental health patients’ confidential information (unknown) Israel: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street (unknown) Contact tracing data breach exposes health information of Pennsylvanians (72,000). Data breaches.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

For over 30 years I have studied the technologies of security and privacy. Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

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Regulation of AI-Based Applications: The Inevitable New Frontier

AIIM

No doubt, applications of AI may address some of the most vexing social challenges such as health, the environment, economic empowerment, education, and infrastructure. Bill, the California government will be left to its own devices and resources, which are already thinly spread.