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UK: Warning to police staff as force fined £130,000 for losing rape victim interview

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office, an enforcement action in a troubling breach incident: Humberside Police has been fined £130,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after disks containing a video interview of an alleged rape victim went missing. The three unencrypted disks and accompanying paperwork were left in an envelope on an officer’s desk. The…

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Alabama Becomes 50th State to Enact Data Breach Notification Law

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Dissent

Edward McAndrew of Ballard Spahr LLP writes: Alabama has officially joined the data breach notification party. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Act No. 2018-396 into law on March 28, 2018. The law will take effect on May 1, 2018. Although it was last in the country to enact such a data security law, Alabama’s new…

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Fourth Annual Data Security Incident Response Report Released – Building Cyber Resilience

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Dissent

Theodore J. Kobus III writes: On Monday we published our fourth annual Data Security Incident Response Report, which provides an analysis of the more than 560 cyber incidents handled by the team in 2017. Reflecting on the increasingly sophisticated nature of attacks, the aggressiveness by regulators in researching breaches and the expectations of highly developed responses,…

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Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…

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NYS Data breaches exposed personal information of 9.2M New Yorkers in 2017

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

WHEC reports: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Rochester Thursday to release a new report on data breaches impacting New Yorkers. The attorney general released “Information Exposed: 2017 Data Breaches in New York State,” documenting the record number of data breach notices filed with his office in 2017. In 2017, companies and other entities reported 1,583…

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32 state Attorneys General to Congress: Don’t replace our stronger privacy laws!

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Dissent

Mike Litt writes: A bipartisan group of 32 state Attorneys General, led by Illinois AG Lisa Madigan, sent a joint letter last week to the House Financial Services Committee leadership against the draft (link includes opposition testimony of Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office) “Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act” that PIRG has also been opposing. The bill…

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