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Ed Goold
Jan 11, 2019 - #ICO, #Investigation, #Enforcement, #Risk, #Regulation

Cambridge Analytica - ICO Struggles to Impose the Rule of Law

Cambridge Analytica’s parent company ended up in court this week for failing to adhere to an ICO enforcement notice. That the ICO had to resort to criminal prosecution at all sheds valuable light on the broad contempt for data privacy that persists in large sections of the economy and the continuing enforcement challenges that the regulator faces.
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Kyle DuPont
Oct 30, 2018 - #Security, #Cloud, #Risk

Implementing Information Security in a World Increasingly Concerned with Data Protection

From the GDPR to the Brazil General Data Protection Law to the California Consumer Privacy Act, new regulations emerging throughout the world require businesses to emphasize data protection as a new facet of security across their systems. At its simplest, this can mean just understanding where a company has data. At its more sophisticated it requires implementing new technical systems and human-centered business processes around data management wherever it exists across the cloud, on premise, shared drives, or in paper filing systems.
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Kyle DuPont
Oct 9, 2018 - #AI, #Machine Learning, #Japan, #Repost

Ohalo Press Coverage in Japan

Ohalo is picked up by Ledge.ai, the biggest machine learning and AI technology publication in Japan.
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Ed Goold
Sep 11, 2018 - #GDPR, #Fines, #Data breach, #Risk, #Investigation, #Regulation

Big stick time with the ICO’s first major GDPR case

On 7 September British Airways disclosed the first major data breach to fall exclusively under the GDPR, the new European data protection law. The UK information regulator, the ICO, must now respond. Though the ICO has taken a softly-spoken approach on enforcement to date, the scale and nature of the British Airways breach most likely heralds big stick time.
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Ed Goold
Aug 7, 2018 - #California Consumer Privacy Act 2018, #Personal data, #Data X-Ray, #Data discovery, #Data mapping, #Risk, #GDPR

New Privacy Regulations in California: the Biggest Risks and How to Get Ready

In the wake of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the business world will soon have to reckon with similar California legislation. The California Consumer Privacy Act will take effect from 1 January 2020 and has deep parallels with the GDPR. The Act requires far higher levels of active data management than is currently the case (particularly around transparency and good security practices) and will pose a significant, further compliance challenge.
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Andreas Olofsson
May 6, 2018 - #Ethereum, #Solidity, #Engineering

Redundancy is Needed when Building Safe Smart Contracts

Distributiveness is a key principle in Blockchain protocols like Ethereum, and is often touted as *the* solution for building strong and resilient networks. Most people who works with Ethereum DApps would firmly agree, and yet if we look at the reasons as to why some DApps has failed, or are at risk, or why a failure incurred major losses, it is often because the developers in some way or another put all their eggs in one basket.
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Kyle DuPont
May 1, 2018 - #GDPR, #GSuite, #Regulation, #Data X-Ray, #Risk, #Data Protection, #Data Governance, #Google Drive, #Cloud, #SaaS

Using Cloud Services like Google Drive and Box and How you Should be Thinking about GDPR

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on May 25th, many of our customers have been asking us what they should be doing with data stored in cloud services that can store any kind of data, like Google Drive and Box. It’s hard to know whether employees are unknowingly creating files with sensitive personal data and whether that data is being managed properly.
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Alistair Jones
Apr 12, 2018 - #GDPR, #GSuite, #Regulation, #Feature Release, #Data X-Ray, #Data Protection, #Data Governance, #Google Drive, #Cloud, #SaaS

Data X-Ray Supports GDPR Scanning for GSuite Google Drive Accounts

You asked for it, so we delivered. Ohalo Data X-Ray now supports General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data risk screening/scanning of all Google Drive accounts simultaneously across your organization. What this means is that as a GSuite administrator, you will be about to view whether or not your employees are storing personal data that falls under GDPR, putting your company at risk.
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Kyle DuPont
Mar 14, 2018 - #GDPR, #Regulation, #Blockchain, #Data Protection Router, #Data X-Ray, #Enterprise, #Data Mapping

GDPR Article 30 Data Lineage and Why Blockchain Can Help

Article 30 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that data controllers and data processors maintain systems to record data sharing activity. It is risk-adjusted, aimed towards larger organizations of over 250 employees that have more complex data infrastructure across multiple databases both internally and externally. How should a company go about maintaining all of this metadata both inside and outside their organization? We think blockchain holds the answer.
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Kyle DuPont
Feb 19, 2018 - #GDPR, #Regulation, #SaaS, #Big Data, #Data Mapping, #Risk, #Cloud, #Data X-Ray, #Google Drive

GDPR Scanning for Google Drive

Ohalo is excited to introduce GDPR scanning for Google Drive through the Data X-Ray. Your data sits across multiple user accounts and Team Drives in Google Drive. Under the new GDPR regulations coming in May 2018, you need to know where your sensitive data is so that you can take measures to control that data.
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