Ecuador to expedite privacy law following massive breach
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Kyle Brasseur2019-09-18T18:44:00
The Ecuadorian government has given itself 72 hours to finish drafting a national privacy law following a massive data breach that put the personal information of perhaps its entire population at risk.
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