An announcement from the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore: The PDPC has updated Guide to Managing Data Breaches 2.0 (now known as the Guide on Managing and Notifying Data Breaches under the PDPA) with details of the mandatory data breach notification requirement under the PDPA. Access the Guide here. The Guide on Active Enforcement has…
Category: Federal
Human rights lawyers ask Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill be redrafted
Asha Barbaschow |reports: Human Rights Law Centre and the Law Council of Australia have asked that the federal government redraft the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, calling its contents “particularly egregious” and “so broad”. The Bill, if passed, would hand the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)…
At House SolarWinds hearing, bipartisan lawmakers announce breach disclosure bill
Joe Uchill reports: At a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committee about the SolarWinds-related espionage campaign, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that he and Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., are working on legislation to require companies to notify the federal government after similar breaches. The Friday House hearing was the second hearing of…
French Regulator Lambasts Health Firms Over Mass Data Leak
Helene Fouquet reports: France’s privacy watchdog said it’s investigating the leak of sensitive health data on half a million people and said the companies involved could face heavy penalties if they don’t come forward with details of the breaches. The leaks were of “particularly significant magnitude and severity,” the CNIL said in a statement. Hackers may have…
March 1, 2021: Deadline for Reporting 2020 Small Healthcare Data Breaches
Reminder: March 1, 2021: Deadline for Reporting 2020 Small Healthcare Data Breaches
New Russian Crypto Law – A Government Tool to Take Control Over the DarkWeb Market?
Anastasia Sentsova and Yelisey Boguslavskiy write: On January 1, 2021, the Russian authorities introduced a new law regulating cryptocurrencies. This law may be a manifestation of the Russian government’s desire to seek control over the DarkWeb markets and its ransomware sector that became extremely prolific over the past two years. The criminal business that runs…