The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the world becomes more digital and connected, it is no surprise that data privacy and security is a growing concern for small to medium sized businesses — SMBs. Related: GDPR sets new course for data privacy. Let’s look at some of the challenges faced by SMBs in today’s data privacy landscape.

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AIIM

MARCH 27, 2024

Data privacy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of biggest issues in the information spaces today. However, despite the enormous amount of coverage they receive in the trade and general media, what is not yet well understood is how tightly intertwined they are, and how risky it can be to address them without a proper foundation.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 29, 2022

Proposed Class Action Claims Meta Pixel Tracks Sensitive Patient Info Another proposed federal class action lawsuit alleges Facebook uses its Pixel tracking tool to collect millions of individuals' sensitive health data from healthcare provider websites without patients' knowledge or consent.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

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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Data Breach Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Attorney Kirk Nahra on Where FTC Is Headed in Disputes Such as GoodRx, BetterHelp The Federal Trade Commission's recent actions against two companies in separate health data privacy cases are significant developments signaling the FTC's "aggressive push" to enforce violations involving disclosures of consumer health data to third parties, said attorney (..)

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 19, 2021

A proposed privacy framework from the eHealth Initiative & Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology aims to set standards for the collection, disclosure and use of health data that falls outside the protection of HIPAA, says attorney Andrew Crawford of CDT.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Looking back at the definition of the GigaOm Radar report, DSPM allows organizations to seek answers to the most pressing questions of security and privacy teams: What sensitive data do we have? Why is a DSPM Solution Necessary for Data Privacy? million terabytes of data are created daily. Where is it located?

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Data Breach Today

JULY 7, 2022

Google Plans to Delete Certain Location Data; What Can Other Entities Do?

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Agency Alleges 1Health Deceived Consumers About How It Handled Sensitive Data A consumer genetic testing company must ensure the destruction of customer saliva samples and undergo third-party evaluation of its information security program for the next two decades under a proposed consent order with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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AIIM

APRIL 13, 2021

Prompted by new concerns about digital privacy and ethics, The State of Virginia recently became the second state, behind California, to adopt a comprehensive consumer data privacy law. The AIIM community has been engaged in the personal data privacy conversation for a while now.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy. All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label—making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed. There’s a lot of details in the report.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Former FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Leader Daniel Kaufman Discusses Top Concerns As the Federal Trade Commission focuses on data brokers that collect and share consumers' sensitive information, any company that participates in those activities needs to carefully review its practices, says attorney Daniel Kaufman, former acting director of the FTC's (..)

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

Analytics Firm Says FTC Is Overstepping Its Authority A lawsuit by an Idaho-based data marketing and analytics vendor against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is the latest legal dispute spotlighting growing privacy concerns related to the tracking and collection of consumers' healthcare-related and location data.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 30, 2020

As a Country, We Really Haven't Sorted Out Privacy' In an exclusive, wide-ranging video interview, Don Rucker, M.D., HHS national coordinator for health IT, discusses why more work needs to be done to protect the privacy of health data as well as why the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

It could be FTC first, then European GDPR and Canadian PIPEDA, then upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act, and many other privacy regulations worldwide. Cybersecurity and data privacy are trends similar to the trends of cloud, mobile and AI.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

European Commission Took Key Step in Finalizing Trans-Atlantic Data Flow Framework Europe took a key step in formalizing a framework to underpin the trans-Atlantic flow of commercial data but privacy activists say the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. agreement won't stand up to a legal challenge.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 6, 2023

The reform of Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) It remains to be seen how the legislative process will unfold, but it is encouraging to see Hong Kong taking steps to reform its data privacy framework by making reference to the legal regime in other jurisdictions.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

He’s also an award-winning author, and has been involved in developing a wide range of information security and data privacy training courses, has consulted for clients across the globe, and is a regular media commentator and speaker. Get immediate visibility of critical data and key performance indicators.

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CGI

JANUARY 24, 2024

Every January 28, organizations around the world celebrate Data Privacy Day (also known as Data Protection Day). Data Privacy Day commemorates the first international treaty governing data privacy, signed on January 28, 1981.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Also, House Committee Scrutinizes Google/Ascension Patient Data Sharing Deal In the wake of Google's plan to buy Fitbit, two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that aims to protect the privacy of consumer health data collected on wearable devices.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

House Committee Told to Relaunch Data Privacy Effort Launched Last Year The U.S. needs to pass federal legislation to establish a national framework of standards and a rules of the road for AI, but first passing federal data privacy legislation is an essential foundational part of that, some witnesses told members of Congress.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Concerns Raised Over ChatGPT's Compliance With GDPR The French and Spanish data privacy watchdogs have launched separate probes into ChatGPT over potential data privacy violations. European scrutiny of the chatbot mounted after the Italian data protection agency announced a temporary ban on ChatGPT in March.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

Case Stems From Concerns About 'Zoom Bombing' and Other Issues Cloud video conferencing provider Zoom has agreed to settle a consolidated class action federal lawsuit for $85 million as well as reform its security and data privacy practices.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Related: GDPR and the new privacy paradigm. 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.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 11, 2023

Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”) which calls on the European Commission (the “Commission”) to continue negotiations with its U.S. counterparts with the aim of creating a mechanism that would ensure equivalence and provide the adequate level of protection required by EU data protection law.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2023

New Data Regime Will Facilitate Commercial Data Flow Between the EU and the US The European Commission has officially adopted the EU-U.S. Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which will enable the free flow of commercial data between Europe and the United States.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 11, 2023

4 , also known as the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”). If the TDPSA is signed into law, Texas could become the tenth state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. On May 10, 2023, the Texas Senate passed H.B. The TDPSA now heads to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for a final signature.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence technologies offer tremendous promise in healthcare, but it's crucial for organizations to carefully assess the complex data privacy concerns involved with different types of AI products and deployments, said Karen Habercoss, chief privacy officer at UChicago Medicine.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 3, 2023

Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”). On July 3, 2023, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo issued a statement confirming that the U.S. has fulfilled its commitments for implementing the EU-U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 10, 2023

Data Privacy Framework (the “Adequacy Decision”). Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the Schrems II case. Data Privacy Framework and commit to a set of privacy obligations to receive EU personal data without having to put in place additional transfer safeguards.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

IAPP's Ashley Casovan on Training and Certification Methods for AI Governance The escalating adoption of generative AI has introduced concerns regarding data privacy, fake data and bias amplification.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Also featured: Preventing digital currency counterfeits; a proposed health data privacy framework. The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes how criminals keep finding new ways to make ransomware victims pay.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

ByteDance-Owned App Fined for Violating Children's Privacy TikTok will pay Irish data privacy regulators 345 million euros to settle allegations it violated the privacy of underage users.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

FTC, HHS Warn Hospitals, Telehealth Firms of Privacy Violations With Tracker Use The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services have publicly named 130 hospitals and telehealth companies that were recently warned that the use of online tracking tools in their websites or mobile apps potentially violates federal data privacy (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 24, 2019

Cisco is out with findings from its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which shows the impact of GDPR compliance as well as how customers are asking more questions about how their data is secured. Cisco Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy analyzes the survey.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Glen Hymers of UK Cabinet Office on Keeping Communication Relevant Cybersecurity practitioners have gained the attention of corporate boards, but that attention must be converted into momentum, says Glen Hymers, head of Data Privacy and Compliance at the U.K. Cabinet Office.

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