All Data Privacy articles – Page 21
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Breach costs Premera Blue Cross $6.85M; second-largest HIPAA fine
Premera Blue Cross has agreed to pay $6.85 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding a 2014 data breach that affected the personal and health plan information of over 10.4 million people.
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BoA a silver lining in damning ‘FinCEN Files’ report; Wells Fargo CEO puts foot in mouth
Bank of America gets a pat on the back for going beyond an “observe and report” approach to filing a SAR, and we learned this week that Wells Fargo’s CEO needs a little unconscious bias training.
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Companies face greater risk as GDPR class actions emerge
In the past month three of the world’s largest tech firms have been hit with legal actions that could lead to billion-dollar damages suits for alleged violations of the GDPR. Neil Hodge explores the trend and what to expect moving forward.
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Déjà vu: Senate committee revisits need for federal privacy law
Nearly a year since their last hearing to discuss the urgent need for a federal privacy law in the United States, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation largely remains stuck in neutral.
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What CCPA-affected businesses need to know about California’s next privacy initiative
Businesses with operations in California should expect their data privacy compliance obligations to get a lot more complicated next year with the California Privacy Rights Act expected to pass in November.
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e-Book: Companies still wrestle with data privacy regulation
This e-Book offers results from a recent Compliance Week and OpenText survey exploring why companies are still struggling with California Consumer Privacy Act compliance.
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U.K. lawsuit seeks $3.2B from YouTube for violating children’s privacy
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the U.K. alleges YouTube unlawfully collects personal information from children without parental consent and harvests their data for advertising purposes, in violation of British and European data privacy laws.
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Credit to JPMorgan Chase in this week’s banking-themed naughty/nice list
JPMorgan Chase, Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America all either “Nailed It” or “Failed It” this week.
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Ireland’s order to Facebook to halt data transfers could have ‘profound’ impact
The Irish DPC’s order to Facebook to halt the transfer of European citizens’ personal data to the United States could pose operational and legal challenges that set a precedent for not only other tech giants, but companies generally.
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More Privacy Shield fallout: Swiss-U.S. pact ruled inadequate
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner believes the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield “does not provide an adequate level of protection for data transfer from Switzerland to the US.”
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European Commission: No Privacy Shield replacement in sight
The European Commission this week warned there will be “no quick fix” to replace the now-invalidated Privacy Shield, which governed data transfers between the European Union and United Sates.
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Credit social media giants for prepping for election chaos
Silicon Valley’s social media heavyweights deserve a nod for “war-gaming” potential misinformation scenarios in advance of November’s elections, while McDonald’s again finds itself on our “Not Lovin’ It” list.
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Webcast
CPE Webcast: How to minimize privacy risks and maintain regulatory compliance
Establishing an effective data retention policy is a key step in managing and protecting one of your organization’s most valuable assets: it’s data.
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CPE Webcast: Capturing, managing communications data in modern enterprise
Today’s employees and customers generate a lot of communications data, in a lot of formats and in a lot of locations, from computers and on prem servers to mobile devices and the cloud.
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EU data authorities take different approaches to Privacy Shield ruling
It appears Europe’s data authorities are prepared to interpret a key court judgement as they see fit in the absence of definitive guidance from the bloc’s primary privacy regulator.
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Credit to KPMG for shining a light on fraud at Wirecard
A scathing report on the extensive fraud at German payment giant Wirecard had a compliance silver lining: KPMG’s by-the-books, transparent approach to a special audit helped bring that fraud to light.
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CPE Webcast: Surviving the next chapter of CCPA and unstructured data management
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) caused many U.S. companies to rethink their approach to data privacy when the law went into effect on January 1, 2020, and again when enforcement began on July 1, 2020.
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Clash over draft Twitter GDPR decision exposes differences among EU authorities
As Ireland’s first GDPR decision against Big Tech hangs in limbo, experts are scratching their heads as to why a seemingly straightforward case is headed to the EU’s data governing body to rule on.
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SEC wants to curb sensitive data contained in CAT submissions, EDGAR filings
Rule changes proposed by the SEC seek to limit the amount of personally identifiable information required in data submitted to the Consolidated Audit Trail and for public company filings.
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Jury’s out on Wells Fargo compliance moves; Twitter #fail for Irish DPC
While it’s not yet clear whether Wells Fargo’s compliance moves (including the loss of its CCO) will pay off, we’re much more certain about the Irish Data Protection Commission’s stance on a potential Twitter fine.