You know California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the tough new privacy law? The sweeping, GDPR-esque legislation set to go into effect on the first day of the new year that’s set off palpitations within the breasts of tech companies and lawmakers, what with its specter of fines and compliance costs? Microsoft’s ...
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In October 2019, the German Conference of Federal and State Data Protection Authorities (DSK) published its long-awaited guidelines for the determination of fines in privacy violation proceedings against companies. The Fining Concept applies to the imposition of fines by German Data Protection Authorities within the scope of the ...
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Data is valuable — something that companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon realized far earlier than most consumers did. But computer scientists have been working on alternative models, even as the public has grown weary of having their data used and abused. Dawn Song, a professor at the ...
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"This is a good piece of legislation in terms of the effort they are trying to do. Is GDPR the correct solution? I think no and I think the mistake it makes is actually in the name; the General Data Protection Regulation misplaces the problem," Snowden told the ...
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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) is facing a possible investigation and potential €1m fines over the mandatory requirement to hold a public services card in order to access the new National Childcare Scheme. The Irish Examiner has learned that the Data Protection Commissioner has written ...
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Signed on Friday, the law provides for the legal framework for the protection of a person’s privacy in instances where personal information is collected, stored, used or processed by another person. The Bill follows the path taken by the European Union in enacting the General Data Protection Regulation ...
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After more than three years of legislative fine-tuning, Canadian businesses will be required as of Thursday to alert their customers and the federal privacy watchdog if there’s a danger that personal information under an organization’s control has fallen into the wrong hands. Failure to report the potential for ...
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"It has now been over a year since the introduction of the new GDPR legislation, and we have just learnt that British Airways (BA) is facing a fine of up to £183m from the ICO. However, other than increasing the government’s coffers and knocking down a few percent ...
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