Collaborate Disseminate
An announcement from the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore: The PDPC has updated Guide to Managing Data Breaches 2.0 (now known as the Guide on Managing and Notifying Data Breaches under the PDPA) with details of the mandatory data breac… Continue reading SG: Revised Guides on Managing Data Breach and Active Enforcement Now Available
Asha Barbaschow |reports: Human Rights Law Centre and the Law Council of Australia have asked that the federal government redraft the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, calling its contents “particularly egr… Continue reading Human rights lawyers ask Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill be redrafted
Joe Uchill reports: At a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committee about the SolarWinds-related espionage campaign, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that he and Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., are working on legislation to requi… Continue reading At House SolarWinds hearing, bipartisan lawmakers announce breach disclosure bill
Helene Fouquet reports: France’s privacy watchdog said it’s investigating the leak of sensitive health data on half a million people and said the companies involved could face heavy penalties if they don’t come forward with details of the breaches. The… Continue reading French Regulator Lambasts Health Firms Over Mass Data Leak
Reminder: March 1, 2021: Deadline for Reporting 2020 Small Healthcare Data Breaches Continue reading March 1, 2021: Deadline for Reporting 2020 Small Healthcare Data Breaches
Anastasia Sentsova and Yelisey Boguslavskiy write: On January 1, 2021, the Russian authorities introduced a new law regulating cryptocurrencies. This law may be a manifestation of the Russian government’s desire to seek control over the DarkWeb markets… Continue reading New Russian Crypto Law – A Government Tool to Take Control Over the DarkWeb Market?
Matt Fisher of Carium writes: Data breaches grab headlines on a daily basis and arise from a number of different scenarios. However, one question that is not necessarily examined closely (at least in news articles), is whether encryption was in place a… Continue reading When to Report a Breach: Consideration of Encryption States
Alison Frankel reports: Shiyang Huang is not a lawyer. Nor is he a professional objector who makes a living from demanding payments to drop filing vexatious objections to class action appeals. By his account, he’s just a pro se litigant from Topeka who… Continue reading 11th Circuit’s strict new rule for data breach standing will figure in Equifax appeal
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On January 28, 2021, international Data Privacy Day, the newly formed Brazilian data protection authority (Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados, the “ANPD”) published its regulatory strategy for 2021-2023 and work plan for… Continue reading Brazilian Data Protection Authority Publishes Regulatory Strategy for 2021 – 2023
Anuja Vaidya reports: Technology is the linchpin of the United States’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But the growing use of digital solutions raises the complicated issue of ensuring individuals’ right to privacy. Now, a group of Congressional Dem… Continue reading Democrats propose bill to protect privacy, data security amid growing use of pandemic-related tech