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23andMe's Collapse Sparks Urgent Data Privacy Reckoning

SecureWorld News

The recent bankruptcy of 23andMe, a once-pioneering consumer genetics firm, is sending shockwaves through the cybersecurity and data privacy community. Consumers are now asking questions companies should have asked themselves much earlier: Who owns this data? Who controls it during an acquisition? Can it be sold? Should it be?"

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 Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA)

Centraleyes

What is the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA)? The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) is a state law created to protect the privacy of Delaware residents by regulating the collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data by businesses. Who Must Comply With Delaware’s Privacy Act?

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy. Encryption.

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Difference between Data Security and Data Privacy

CyberSecurity Insiders

Most of you connected to the world of data are in a misconception that both the terms data privacy and data security are same and are just the synonyms. Data Security is different and is related to the practice of keeping the data safe from fraudulent access by securing it with encryption, authentication and such stuff.

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Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Malwarebytes

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. Those west of the river, however, have no such protection.

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ROUNDTABLE: Huge Capital One breach shows too little is being done to preserve data privacy

The Last Watchdog

Capital One’s highly confidential data was accessible to a system admin by a very simple password-based mechanism. In addition, sensitive data was not encrypted at rest, and no one was auditing access logs. Cybersecurity and data privacy are trends similar to the trends of cloud, mobile and AI.

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Gmail and Google Calendar Now Support Client-Side Encryption (CSE) to Boost Data Privacy

The Hacker News

Google has announced the general availability of client-side encryption (CSE) for Gmail and Calendar, months after piloting the feature in late 2022. The data privacy controls enable "even more organizations to become arbiters of their own data and the sole party deciding who has access to it," Google's Ganesh Chilakapati and Andy Wen said.