Despite the economic clout of the tech sector, California’s state legislators have passed an extensive slate of data privacy rules that take their cue from the EU’s recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation rules.
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Yahoo fined over historic data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Yahoo £250,000 (U.S. $331,203) for a cyber-attack that placed 500 million users’ personal information at risk.
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It could get messy for U.S. companies doing business in EU
Don’t be surprised if the EU uses new data privacy laws to combat any secondary sanctions it might face by the Trump administration for continuing to do business in Iran.
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SEC, CFTC make their case for more funding, boosting cyber-security
Requesting increased funding for Fiscal Year 2019 before a Senate committee, the heads of the SEC and CFTC touted the need to ramp up their internal cyber-security efforts and external supervision and enforcement of breaches.
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Taking a pull-the-plug approach to GDPR compliance
Given the two-year lead time, few would have guessed that the best way some organisations would comply with the European Union’s stringent new data rules would be to simply cut access to services.
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1touch.io launches privacy management solution built for GDPR
Technology startup 1touch.io has launched the first data protection and privacy management and control solution born of the enormous growth of privacy regulation globally.
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GDPR is live … now what?
With GDPR now in effect, we should soon start to get some answers regarding its enforcement and how its private right to action will play out in the legal arena.
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What to do to make sure you’re ready for GDPR
Data protection experts are emphatic about what a company’s first reaction should be if it believes it is not fully GDPR compliant as 25 May approaches: Don’t panic.
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Rabobank uses Latin to help with GDPR compliance
Jaclyn Jaeger talks with Peter Claassen of Rabobank about the bank’s collaboration with IBM to use cryptographic pseudonyms to anonymize customer information for GDPR compliance.
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Interpreting the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published an update to its widely adopted Cybersecurity Framework, implementing significant revisions.
