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SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Dissent

Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), a laundry list of compliance “deficiencies or weaknesses” were identified in…

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Now it’s personal: 32 jailed in China for stealing 39 million pieces of private data

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Dissent

Mandy Zuo reports: A three-year investigation by police in southwest China into personal data theft has ended with 32 people behind bars and several more awaiting trial, state media reported. More than 50 people were detained by police in Chongqing as part of a nationwide effort to track down and dismantle a criminal gang known…

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HHS exercises enforcement discretion and reduces maximum civil penalties

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dissent

Those who want to see HHS/OCR come down like a ton of bricks on more entities and impose heavier civil monetary penalties for HIPAA breaches will likely not be happy to learn that HHS has decided to reduce the maximum civil penalties it will impose for the four tiers of violations of HIPAA. Under the…

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University of Alaska discovered a breach in February, 2018 that they are first revealing now?

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dissent

The following is not quite the typical press release like we’ve been seeing on an almost daily basis. If this notice doesn’t include typos, then it appears that the University of Alaska first became aware that they had a problem in February of 2018. They started an investigation that they expanded in March, 2018 after…

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Safeguard your network and customer credentials: Tips from the latest FTC data security case

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dissent

One of the other enforcement actions the FTC has taken stems from the ClixSense breach in 2016. Lesley Fair of the FTC writes: Suppose a lunch companion says, “I think there’s something wrong with this tuna salad.” To determine if the problem is tuna not to their taste vs. tuna gone bad, would you scarf…

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Greek DPA Issues EUR 30,000 Fine For Data Protection Violation by Hellenic Petroleum S.A.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dissent

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 15, 2019, the Greek Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) fined Hellenic Petroleum S.A. EUR 20,000 for unlawful processing of personal data and EUR 10,000 for failing to adopt appropriate data security measures. Hellenic Petroleum S.A. had engaged a vendor to conduct a study on its behalf. The study was exposed…

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