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GDPR Ain’t Helping Anyone In The Innovation Economy

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post GDPR Ain’t Helping Anyone In The Innovation Economy appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. Before I do, however, it’s worth laying out the fundamental principles driving GDPR.

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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Gartner analysts estimate that over 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured and is growing up to 65 percent a year, enticing cyber criminals to mine the mother lode. Ransomware target. Often, too many people have free rein.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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MY TAKE: Here’s why we need ‘SecOps’ to help secure ‘Cloud Native’ companiess

The Last Watchdog

In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency. Poor configuration of cloud services can translate into gaping vulnerabilities—and low hanging fruit for hackers, the recent Tesla hack being a prime example.

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GDPR Ain’t Helping Anyone In The Innovation Economy

John Battelle's Searchblog

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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Data protection laws are great. Shame they are not being enforced | John Naughton

The Guardian Data Protection

A shortage of technical experts in EU regulatory authorities means companies can carry on invading our privacy On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became law throughout the European Union. In essence, the GDPR is a set of rules designed to give EU citizens more control over their personal data.

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EUROPE: European consumers organisations launching collective GDPR actions

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

“My Data is Mine” In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, four European Consumers Organisations launched on 30 May 2018 to coordinate collective actions against Facebook in Belgium (Test-Aankoop/Test-Achats), Italy (Altroconsumo), Spain (OCU) and Portugal (Deco-Proteste).

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