India Halts Progress on Data Privacy Last week the Indian government withdrew its proposed privacy bill. India, which is the fastest growing market for new internet users, has been working on The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, for two years.…
Data governance is a common imperative for most if not all organizations, and that regulatory imperative has created an industry of tech and tools to assist with cataloging, storing and protecting personal data for organizations. Because of the disorganized and…
Ireland Appoints New Privacy Commissioners Last week the Irish government announced the appointment of two new data privacy commissioners to its Data Protection Commission (DPC). According to Reuters, “Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said the appointments will support existing commissioner…
On July 21, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it had updated its cybersecurity guidance for the healthcare industry in order to “help health care organizations protect patients’ personal health information[.]” These updates came in the…
Ransomware attacks can be devastating and tend to leave an organization with very few options, including restoring data from the last organizational backup, if that exists; rebuilding the organization’s entire network; or pay the ransom the threat actor demands. However,…
House Advances American Data Privacy and Protection Act In a landmark step forward for consumer data privacy, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to move forward with the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) last week. Lawmakers…
According to the SonicWall 2022 Cyber Threat Report, in 2021 the world experienced a 1,885 percent increase in ransomware attacks on governmental entities, and a 104 percent increase in ransomware attacks on North American entities. The increasing prevalence of these…
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…
