One of the key ways organizations can stay in compliance with data privacy laws—thus gaining a competitive edge—is to properly classify data. Digital Guardian defines data classification as the process of automatically organizing data collected or generated by your organization…
MIT Releases White Paper on Data Privacy First-Movers In a new white paper, MIT Technology Review released insights on emerging and current data privacy legislation. The paper, titled First-mover advantages of implementing data privacy in countries where such a law…
Cybersecurity Named Top Driver of Legal Disputes The 2021 Annual Litigation Trends Survey from Norton Rose Fulbright, which surveyed 250 U.S. General counsel and litigation leaders, has identified technological progression and its inherent cybersecurity risks as a primary threat vector…
On June 3, the U.S. Senate released a draft of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). If passed into law, it would be the nation’s first comprehensive federal data privacy standard. Currently, data privacy in the United…
CISA Adds 21 Vulnerabilities to Catalog Last week, The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) alerted federal agencies to 75 new additions to its new Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Affected software includes products from Cisco, Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle. A significant…
Complying with any data privacy law means, in large part, getting serious about data security. But that’s easier said than done—with cyberattacks increasing in frequency and severity each year, it’s clear that organizations need more than good password schemes and…
On May 27, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board announced that it will hold a public meeting on June 8, 2022 to discuss proposed changes to, and enforcement of, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)—as amended by…
Quebec Updates Data Privacy Law Starting in September 2022, Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Act) will take effect. Recent updates have been passed to the Act regarding biometric privacy. A summary of the…
Last week, California lawmakers met to discuss ways to further the protection of children related to the California Age Appropriate Design Code Bill (AB 2273), which was introduced on February 16, 2022, by California State Assembly members Buffy Wicks (D)…
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Supply Chain Guidance The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released guidance on supply chain cybersecurity this week in response to the Biden administration’s Executive Order 14028—Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The guidance, Software Supply Chain Security…
