The Department of Energy (DOE)definesPII as follows: "Any information collected or maintained by the department about an individual, including but not limited to education, financial transactions, medical history and criminal or employment history, and information that can be used to distinguish or t...
Drawback: Customers become completely dependent on the CDO to perform these tasks in a timely manner, which is crucial to avoid interruptions in database service but it’s not always the case. For example, at the time of writing, one of the leading DBaaS providers for Postgres...
Today, search engines like Google have called for HTTPS everywhere, even if websites don't handle sensitive data or sensitive information like personally identifiable information (PII). HTTPS not only provides critical information security and data integrity, but is a requirement for many new web br...
Localisation. The status quo remains for critical information infrastructure (“CII”) operators. These and other businesses handing personal information over an undetermined threshold have a default localisation requirement. If transfers overseas of PII are to be conducted, the same sec...
This is a form of live digital forensics. Data loss prevention (DLP): Data loss prevention and information security teams are concerned with ensuring staff are not intentionally or unintentionally leaking sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII) outside the network, resulting in ...
The Act consists of three sections: The Financial Privacy Rule, which regulates the collection and disclosure of private financial information; the Safeguards Rule, which stipulates that financial institutions must implement security programs to protect such information; and the Pretexting Rule, which proh...
Everyone's conscience is different and cannot be coerced, which is why a free democratic society places a high value on tolerance and equal respect for all citizens. However, if individuals are permitted to exercise their conscience when serving the public, it gives social sanction to the ...
However, the position in most of Europe is that disclosure is permitted with the consent of the data subject only (Godard et al., 2006). Despite the domination of consent in setting aside the duty of confidence, in the context of processing personal and confidential health data more generally...
Additional drawbacks of noncompete agreements include the following: Legal limitations: Each state has its own guidelines on what is and is not permitted in a noncompete agreement. As a result, you may find that your noncompete has legal limitations. Costly to enforce if violated: If you ...
But what if the business in question is not a “third party” under the CCPA but is instead a “service provider?” Provided that certain requirements under the law are met, businesses otherwise prohibited from transferring PII to third parties due to an opt-out request may be permitted to...