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NewsWashington Privacy Bill redrafted to add sweeping opt-out controls
Washington state’s new Privacy Bill has been amended and strengthened by state house lawmakers to include new opt-out controls and private right to action.
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NewsBusiness Update: Annual Cyber Protection Week survey reveals post-pandemic paradox
Despite 80% of organizations running up to 10 different protection and cybersecurity solutions simultaneously, more than 50% of them experienced downtime from data loss last year (Press Release)
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ResearchCharting the UK Data Protection Profession: March 2021 Report
Data Protection World Forum and The DPO Centre are delighted to bring you the third Index survey report from the ground-breaking UK Data Protection Index.
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NewsRegulators urged to ‘stop squabbling’ over GDPR enforcement
The European Commission Vice President has called on regulators to stop squabbling over the enforcement of data protection rules or face the possibility of a centralised model.
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NewsSwiss DPA probes vaccine website for possible data security breach
The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (DPIC) in Switzerland is probing a possible data security breach by a website that allows people to voluntarily upload an electronic version of their vaccination record.
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NewsBusiness Update: Rita: The first mobile app that gives you ownership of your data
Rita launches an app giving users the ability to collect, view and control their own personal information. (press release)
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NewsBusiness Update: OneTrust to acquire ethics and compliance leader Convercent
OneTrust announce acquisition of Convercent so customers won’t have to compromise when it comes to centralizing on a platform of trust. (press release)
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NewsBusiness Update: Dutch Tech scale ups introduce technology breakthrough in world of privacy and data retention
Dutch tech scale ups INDICA and filerskeepers announce a new partnership and introduce a technology breakthrough in the world of privacy: Global Automated Legal Data Retention. This enables organisations to automatically find documents and data that need to be deleted according to any type of regulation. (press release)
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NewsUS options to resolve Schrems II outcome spelt out
Authorities in the US have three ways of overcoming commercial data transfer difficulties created by the Schrems II ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), according to the Congressional Research Service.
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BlogA quick glance at the current state of US privacy laws
Confused about the state of play when it comes to the varying United States’ privacy laws? Here is an at-a-glance reminder of where we are in several states ahead of PrivSec Global’s panel, US Privacy: The Year for Change?
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NewsFrance’s DPA investigates Clubhouse for GDPR compliance
The Data Protection Authority in France has launched a probe into social chat app Clubhouse to verify compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), marking a second questioning of the company’s practices by European authorities.
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NewsCalifornia appoints members of privacy protection agency board
The five members of the inaugural board for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) have been named.
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NewsAnti-trust complaint against Google widened to include Privacy Sandbox
A coalition of US states led by Texas has amended its lawsuit against Google, claiming anti-trust violations through the company’s efforts to boost its dominant advertising business.
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WebinarData Retention and Records Management Under the CPRA
While the CCPA doesn’t explicitly address data retention and data minimization practices, California voters chose to expand their rights by passing the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in November of 2020, which fills in those data retention and minimization gaps.
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NewsBusiness Update: Tala Security announce the release of their industry-first platform solution
Tala Detect is an industry-first platform solution specifically designed to secure and control critical, sensitive web data and enable compliance/risk management. (press release)
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NewsBusiness Update: Inpher secures investment from the Amazon Alexa fund for consumer data protection in AI
Inpher has announced they have secured funding from the Amazon Alexa fund with plans to bring its privacy-preserving machine learning capabilities to connected devices and IoT services. (press release)
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AnalysisA look at Canada’s new data privacy law
New legislation in Canada will expand data privacy obligations. GRC World Forums summarises the key changes to the law along with insight from PrivSec Global speaker Mark Sward
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WebinarImproving Outcomes with Informatics Powered by Safe Data
Health organizations are working hard to safely leverage patient data across the care continuum to improve outcomes.
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NewsBusiness Update: Avira launches new Avira Security for Mac
Built on Apple’s own technology for the latest operating systems, Avira Security for Mac is an all-in-one security, privacy and performance tool, available for free with premium upgrades (press release)
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NewsBusiness Update: Rita Personal Data launches the first mobile app that gives users data ownership
With a mission to give users data ownership, Rita has launched a data management tool where users can collect, view and take control of their data. (press release)
