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CORRECTION: Massachusetts Data Protection Law Takes Effect May 1, 2009

A big thank you to Brandon Dunlap and Brett Myers for catching an error I made in my January 1 post......

New Data Protection Laws Go Into Effect Today

Happy New Year! Several news laws go into effect today. Here are just a few of them......

PII Encryption Required by New Massachusetts and Nevada Laws

There is a growing trend in laws that require personally identifiable information (PII) to be encrypted. Encryption in past laws have been directed to be considered based upon risk, but now they are more explicitly required in some laws....

Useful Data Protection (Privacy) Law Sites

This morning I took a little time to update my long listing of world-wide data protection (privacy) laws. Here are some of them you may find helpful:...

Judge Rules University Policy & FERPA Allow Student PII To Be Released

Here's a case I found interesting...the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on October 24th that providing a group of record company plaintiffs with student personally identifiable information (PII) does not violate the U.S. Family Educational...

Insider Threat Lessons: Posting Threats And Personnel PII On The Internet Establishes Federal Jurisdiction

Here's another insider threat example to know and to discuss with your legal counsel and HR folks. It highlights the need for information security and privacy policies, shows how information security and privacy must work with multiple areas on an...

Do Something To Change Information Security, Privacy and Compliance...Contact Congress!

I, along with a very large number of other bloggers, writers and instructors, often pick apart data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and point out how certain portions of them are infeasible for most organizations to implement, and talk...

Information Security Awareness in Europe...The Issues Are the Same Worldwide

on 8/22/2007 a very interesting and useful report was released by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), "Information security awareness initiatives: Current practice and the measurement of success."...

EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC: Member Countries

Multi-national organizations doing business in Europe must know and understand not only their obligations to protect personally identifiable information (PII) under the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive 95/45/EC, but they must also know and understand the data protection laws...

Outsourcing: Dubai Strengthens Data Protection Law

On Monday (1/8) the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) implemented a stronger Data Protection Law and appointed a Data Protection Commission to oversee the DIFC. "The Data Protection Law, which has been amended following a period of public consultation, ensures...

12 Privacy-Impacting U.S. Federal Bills Introduced on January 4

On January 4th the 110th U.S. congress convened for the first time, and they did not waste any time introducing many new bills. 12 of them have privacy impacts. You can find more information about each of these at the...

Demystifying Privacy Laws: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Business

We are undergoing a data protection renaissance.  New laws have considerably expanded corporate obligations regarding security and privacy for information in all forms.  A significant obligation of the laws is applicable to basically all organizations; the duty to provide reasonable...

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