All Data Privacy articles – Page 2
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DPOrganizer tool aids GDPR compliance
Swedish data privacy company DPOrganizer announced the addition of a new tool to its privacy management software. The Incident Manager enables businesses to act in accordance with GDPR, reducing the risk of financial and reputational loss.
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TrustArc adds automated risk management to privacy platform
Data privacy management company TrustArc announced the addition of Intelligence Engine to its privacy platform. The automated program is designed to enable organizations to save up to 75 percent of the time it takes to identify, analyze, and prioritize privacy risks.
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Accellion CISO Dashboard provides visible, traceable record of sensitive content
Accellion, a secure file-sharing and governance platform provider, today announced the general availability of its CISO Dashboard. With the CISO Dashboard, IT security and compliance executives have for the first time ever a visual and traceable record of every piece of sensitive content—in or outside of the organization.
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Data privacy bill threatens corporate fines, jail for executives
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has announced proposed legislation that would “impose harsh fines and prison terms for executives at corporations that misuse Americans’ data.”
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Senators demand post-breach answers from Google CEO
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have written a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai that demands more information regarding a recently reported breach.
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U.K. data regulator slaps Facebook with maximum fine
Facebook has been hit with a £500,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office for serious breaches of data protection rules stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Apple CEO pushes for U.S.-style GDPR, bashes those who ‘put profits over privacy’
Apple CEO Tim Cook voiced his support for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and advocated for a similar U.S. mandate based on four “essential rights.”
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German DPAs begin random GDPR examinations
The Data Protection Authority of the German state of Lower Saxony recently began random examinations into how well companies are implementing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations. Compliance officers of U.S. companies with operations in Germany should be on alert.
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ArticleHeathrow Airport operator fined for data breach
The U.K.’s biggest airport operator has been fined £120,000 after an unencrypted USB memory stick that reportedly contained security details about the Queen’s travel plans was found by a member of the public on a busy London street.
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Google’s hidden breach could be regulatory tipping point
A March data breach, kept under wraps until now, could spell regulatory trouble for Google and its tech brethren.
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ArticleWhile supportive, tech companies haggle over federal privacy law
Well past the point of omens, it seems that a federal consumer privacy law is imminent. But what should that law be? How should it mimic GDPR requirements and those of states like California? The devil may be uploaded with the details.
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California is first state to enact a domestic take on EU data protections
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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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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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.
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Group wants unredacted privacy assessments from Facebook
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit is seeking the release of unredacted Facebook privacy assessments from the Federal Trade Commission. The assessments were mandated under the terms of a 2011 consent order.
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ArticleFacebook’s data problems open door to domestic regulation of tech firms
As Facebook takes heat for how its user data has been exploited for political purposes, some wonder if a homegrown version of GDPR is on the horizon.
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EDPS Opinion calls for enforced data protections
A recently published European Data Protection Supervisor Opinion discussing online manipulation and personal data calls for enforced data protections.
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Bill seeks to save kids from identity theft
The Senate has advanced the Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act, bipartisan legislation that would augment the ability of financial institutions to prevent synthetic identity fraud, a scam involving stolen Social Security account numbers.