All NORTH AMERICA articles – Page 2
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NewsFTC warns health apps to comply with health breach notification rule
Policy statement affirms that covered companies that hold fertility, heart health, glucose levels and other health data must notify consumers in the event of a breach.
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NewsUK, US and Australia announce security partnership
In an effort to counter China, the UK, US and Australia have announced a historic security and defense agreement.
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NewsUS manager of Nigerian romance scam jailed for money laundering
An Oklahoma man has received a four-year prison sentence for running a group of money launderers who used online dating websites to defraud romance seekers of at least $2.5m (€2.12m). Among the victims were elderly people across the US.
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NewsFTC bans SpyFone and CEO from surveillance business
In a first, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned a company and its boss from operating in the surveillance sector because of allegations the firm’s app secretly harvested and shared data on people’s movements, phone use and online activities through a hidden device.
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WebinarConquering a CPRA Data Retention Strategy in 60 Days
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) comes into effect on January 1, 2023. Among its new requirements is a new data retention provision.
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NewsGoogle to boost cyber security
Tech giant Google has announced it will invest $10bn (€8.51bn) over the next five years to strengthen cyber security.
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NewsUS names three people for financial crimes in South America
The treasury department in the US has sanctioned three Paraguayans for money laundering and import-export offences based in the Tri-Border Area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
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NewsCompany owner jailed for Covid-relief fraud
Businessman Mukund Mohan of Clyde Hill, Washington state, has been imprisoned for two years after admitting fraud and money laundering to obtain $5.5m (€4.68m) from the US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and then hiding the proceeds.
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NewsJPMorgan Chase warns customers of data breach
US banking and financial services company has alerted its customers of a technical glitch that may have exposed the personal data of its customers.
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NewsBrooklyn Tech students uncover data breach
Students at Brooklyn Technical High School unintentionally discovered a data breach within the education department’s Google Drive.
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NewsUS terror watchlist leaked online
A misconfigured server has exposed a secret watchlist of suspected terrorists online.
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WebinarEmployee DSARs: The Coming Deluge
Up until now, organizations have assumed that all data subject requests were the same.
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NewsHalf of US hospitals disconnected their networks due to ransomware
Under half (48%) of US hospitals have reported shutting down its networks in the past six months due to ransomware, according to new report from Philips and CyberMDX.
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ebookTaking Aim at Enterprise Data Governance
When Data is a Moving Target, do Insight and Compliance Become Shots in the Dark?
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NewsHackers steal $600m in cryptocurrency raid
Cyber-attackers have taken around $600m (€510m) of digital tokens from Poly Network in what is believed to be one the largest ever thefts of cryptocurrency.
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NewsCalls for US real estate shake up to counter money laundering
The US government should comprehensively reform regulations covering the property market’s ‘gatekeepers’ to combat the billions laundered through the sector, according to a report by the Global Financial Integrity think tank.
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NewsEx-lawyer jailed in US for fraud and money laundering conspiracy
A judge in Colorado has imprisoned former California attorney David Kaplan for 36 months after he admitted his part in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
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WebinarFuture Proofing Your Privacy Program
Standing up and fortifying your company’s privacy program is serious business, particularly when new (and varying) privacy laws keep getting added to the books, and your day job to-do list isn’t getting any shorter.
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NewsUS lawmakers call for regulation over “hacking for hire” industry
Members of the U.S House of Representatives have issued a joint statement on reports that the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used by authoritarian regimes against peaceful journalists and activists around the world.
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NewsTests validate accuracy of face recognition software’s for boarding flights
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US has found facial recognition algorithms can identify a passenger’s face with at least 99.5% accuracy using a single scan.
