Data Protector

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The EU’s draft Data Governance Act is designed to facilitate the greater sharing of non-Personal data within the EU. Such big data ought to provide new insights and benefit the lives of EU citizens, the EU thinking goes.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On 11 August 2023, India’s long-awaited law governing data protection – the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ( DPDP Act ) – received the President’s assent and was published in the official gazette the following day. data subjects, using the GDPR terminology) located within India.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 5, 2023

19-Year-Old José Huerta Allegedly Hacked A Government File Transfer System Spanish National Police arrested Friday a teenager hacker who allegedly stole the sensitive data of more than half a million taxpayers from the national revenue service and boasted in an online podcast about having access to personal data of 90 percent of the population.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 22, 2023

reports that in early August 2023, the Indian Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (the “Act”), bringing to a close a 5-year process to enact an omnibus data privacy law in India. The Act was ratified by the President of India and will come into effect once notified by the Government.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Swiss town Rolle disclosed the data breach after a ransomware attack, personal details of all its 6,200 inhabitants were stolen by threat actors. “Gigabytes of data stolen from Rolle’s vaudois community and posted on darknet. The threat actors compromised some administrative servers and exfiltrated sensitive documents.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

Threat actors defaced multiple Ukrainian government websites after talks between Ukrainian, US, and Russian officials hit a dead this week. Threat actors have defaced multiple websites of the Ukrainian government on the night between January 13 and January 14. All your personal data has been sent to a public network.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Ukraine’s NCCC banned the Telegram app for government agencies, military, and critical infrastructure, due to national security concerns. ” Despite the ban on military and government devices, Ukrainian users rely heavily on Telegram to communicate and receive news on ongoing conflicts. ” continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 26, 2024

On 16 July 2024, the Malaysian Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament) passed the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024 (the PDP Bill ). Data processors will also be potentially subject to the direct imposition of penalties for breach of their obligations.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

On 18 July 2023, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“ PDPC ”) issued for public consultation a set of proposed guidelines for the use of personal data in AI recommendation and decision systems (“ Proposed Guidelines ”). The public consultation is open until 31 August 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S. military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. military members and government employees. The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 22, 2022

UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published the UK government’s long-awaited response to the consultation on the future of the UK data protection regime.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On 22 September 2021, the UK Government (the “ Government ”) published its Artificial Intelligence (“ AI ”) strategy. The paper outlines the Government’s plan to make Britain a “global superpower” in the AI arena, and sets out an agenda to build the most “pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world”.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2021

Meanwhile, Breaches Involving Military Secrets and CCTV Footage Beset UK Government Phishing, ransomware and unauthorized access remain the leading causes of personal data breaches as well as violations of data protection rules, Britain's privacy watchdog reports.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2024

Also: Personal Data Theft From OKX; Terraform-SEC Settlement Terms This week, the Norwegian government froze funds from the Ronin hack, a hacker stole personal data of OKX users, Terraform Labs' SEC released settlement terms, "Ethereum's most secure wallet" was breached, Orbit Chain spoke about its hacked funds and scammers exploited AI hype.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 8, 2022

In July 2022, Maria Ostashenko from ALRUD Law Firm reports that the Russian Parliament passed, and the President of the Russian Federation signed into law, major reforms in data protection and information governance. The reforms include: Significant changes to Federal Law No.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The complaint alleged that the company’s data handling practices also resulted in unauthorized disclosures of personal information.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This week, we discuss the new mechanism for transferring EU residents’ personal data to the US, the first GDPR Data Protection Seal, a new ransomware attack targeting Ukraine and its allies, and the first layer in a defence-in-depth approach to cyber security: detection.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You might remember that several months and a handful of prime ministers ago, the government proposed an overhaul of data protection law. The efforts stemmed from complaints over the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , which was adopted by the UK on the precipice of Brexit. However, not everyone felt the same way.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript: Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 September 2023. The Cyber Essentials scheme is a government-backed framework supported by the National Cyber security Centre. IT Governance has been a certification body for the scheme since 2014, when it was launched.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2021

Estonia ‘s police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to be the hacker who stole 286K ID scans from the government systems. Estonian police arrested a man from Tallinn that is suspected to have stolen 286,438 belonging to Estonians citizens from the government systems. or take a new document photo. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2024

Navigating Compliance: Understanding India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act madhav Thu, 05/09/2024 - 05:30 In August 2023, the Indian Parliament passed a piece of landmark legislation, the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, marking a significant shift in India's data protection landscape.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our goal is to leverage cutting-edge technology, with personalized data, to improve what we like to call ‘precision care models,’” Hinkley told me. “We across the whole ecosystem, whether it’s personal health, mental health, social health or worker wellness.”. “We Fixing data governance.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. And that’s exactly what appears to be going on right now as multiple U.S. Meanwhile, a number of U.S.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To keep things in context, outside of the US, the idea that someone can file a lawsuit and demand large volumes of ESI, including sensitive business, government, or personal information, is truly a “foreign” concept and is viewed cautiously, if not with outright alarm. Data Still Needs to Move Across Borders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2023

A researcher recently discovered that a Bangladesh government website leaks the personal data of citizens. The researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovered a Bangladeshi government website that was leaking the personal information of millions of Bangladesh citizens.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Millions of Indonesian Residents, Including President Widodo, Affected The personal data of at least 1.3 million Indonesian residents, stored on two government-developed COVID-19 tracking apps, PeduliLindungi and eHAC, has been leaked online, according to security researchers. President Joko Widodo is among those affected.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There are often problems with the lawfulnessof personal data processing, largely due to over-reliance on consent. How are organisations failing to process personal data lawfully under the GDPR, and how can they address this while improving their day-to-day business operations? I sat down with Andy to find out more.

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AIIM

APRIL 13, 2021

Technology and apps that are helping to prevent illness, accidents, and crime also happen to collect a vast amount of personal data. The AIIM community has been engaged in the personal data privacy conversation for a while now. and Jasen Hutchinson, Manager, Corporate Records Compliance, JEA.

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Collibra

AUGUST 2, 2022

A data governance council is a governing body for strategizing data governance programs, raising awareness of its importance, approving enterprise data policies and standards, prioritizing related projects, and enabling ongoing support. What does a data governance council do?

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 6, 2022

In its report, the JPC recommended a phased approach to implementing the law, beginning with the appointment of various government officers, such as the Data Protection Authority (“DPA”), with full implementation of the law to be completed within 24 months. Most provisions of the Bill still apply only to personal data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

The data acquired by the intelligence agency can reveal the websites visited by the US citizens and what apps they use. Wyden called on the US government to order intelligence agencies to stop buying personal data from Americans that has been obtained illegally by data brokers.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

government online. Late last year, the login page for the IRS was updated with text advising that by the summer of 2022, the only way for taxpayers to access their records at irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that collects biometric data — such as live facial scans using a mobile device or webcam.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. Below are the attacks reported by Emsisoft: 105 local governments. ” The ransomware attack against local governments resulted in data theft in at least 27 of the 105 incidents (26 percent). .

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AIIM

AUGUST 12, 2021

I really like this definition from Wikipedia : "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society.". Automating Governance and Compliance. Extracting Intelligence from Information.

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Data Protector

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In data protection law, transfers of personal data must be safeguarded by written contracts between the parties. From the beginning of 2021, the UK Government will have the ability to make it easier for UK data exporters to know what the UK’s data protection rules are.

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