Last month, NTT presented 17 new notable research papers co-authored by its Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab and NTT Social Informatics Laboratories (SIL) at Eurocrypt 2023. Eurocrypt 2023 is a conference organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research…
Iowa Signs Data Privacy Bill Into Law Last week, Iowa became the sixth U.S. state to pass a data privacy law when Governor Kim Reynold signed Senate File 262 into law. Like other state data privacy laws, SF 262, broadly,…
Blockchain Rules Will Emerge On January 9, a group of 28 Blockchain technology companies released an open letter to U.S. legislators requesting they protect citizens’ safety, right to self-determination, freedom of press, and “other rights that compose the core of…
On January 4, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it had taken enforcement actions against Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, for violating the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The charges stem from complaints originally filed…
In recent years, organizations have utilized “clean rooms” as part of their data governance practices. According to this Wall Street Journal article, the term “clean room” is derived from the manufacturing industry where a clean room is a “controlled environment…
Indonesia Passes Data Privacy Law On September 20, 2022, Indonesian parliament passed a new law that will provide Indonesian consumers with increased protections. Under the law, data holders are prohibited from “leaking,” misusing, or falsifying Indonesian consumers’ personal information for…
In September 2022 the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published draft guidance to assist organizations with implementing a ‘data protection by design and by default’ approach via techniques like data anonymization and pseudonymization, as well as through the use of privacy…
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…
NAAG Launches Cybersecurity Resource Center Last week the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) announced a new initiative focused on cybersecurity. The NAAG Center on Cyber and Technology (CyTech) joins other NAAG centers focused on key public interests, and will…
