Last Wednesday the CMA (the UK’s antitrust authority) released two documents that, taken together, suggest a worrying trend at the interface between data privacy and antitrust, potentially heralding the abolition of the ICO and the end for GDPR in the UK.
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The CCPA is one of the most sweeping data privacy regulations to come into effect in the United States and is applicable to any company processing the personal information of a Californian resident. This guide provides a practical at-a-glance resource for organizations that are looking to become compliant with the CCPA.
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Facebook’s lead data privacy regulator in the EU, the Irish Data Protection Commission, yesterday summoned the social media giant for an “urgent briefing” to explain its planned backend integration of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
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The French data protection regulator, CNIL, hit Google with a €50m fine this week following a crowdsourced complaint. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this fine is the public trigger to the investigation and the eagerness of the authority to then run with the complaint.
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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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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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Ohalo is picked up by Ledge.ai, the biggest machine learning and AI technology publication in Japan.
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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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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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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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