If you reuse your password across sites, you are exposing yourself to danger because a data breach on any of the sites you use could result in other accounts being compromised. Cybercriminals use your stolen login from one site to hack into your account on another site, this is a cyber at...
The provisions of these laws vary, from what is considered PII to what constitutes a data breach. The National Conference of State Legislatures website provides a list of data breach notification laws for all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Isla...
While there is no definition of what constitutes a “service,” it is highly likely that blogging will count as one (the UK data regulator has strongly implied to us that blogging is clearly an information “service”). It is irrelevant whether or not your consumers pay you for your service...
The introduction of general data protection and data breach notification laws like GDPR, CCPA, FIPA, PIPEDA, the SHIELD Act, and LGPD have dramatically increased the reputation and regulatory impact of inadequate third-party risk management programs. For example, if a third party has access to yo...
Under the GDPR, businesses have 30 days to respond to a DSAR request (with the option of a 30 day extension under certain circumstances). It does not stipulate whether DSARs need to be made in any particular format—if a consumer calls your help line and requests access to their data, ...
state to pass a privacy law. The Colorado Privacy Act grants Colorado residents rights over their data and places obligations on data controllers and processors. It contains some similarities to California's CPRA, Virginia's CDPA, and the EU’s GDPR. While there are similarities, such as some...
What constitutes “doing business with the EU”? If you’re a local small business who doesn’t interact at all with the EU, I think that you are probably fine tomostlyignore this regulation. I still would recommend making some changes to your privacy policy, as I’ve written about below...
Under oppressive governments, people are not given the freedom to reveal their identities. With the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR,) the main purpose of data privacy has grown even more. Data Privacy Principles The six data protection principles cover the lifecycle of a pi...
WebAssembly has been on the market for some years already, so it’s not a new trend, per se. But it’s developing fast and offering more and more options. It’s also now supported by all major browsers by default, which makes having it under your programmer’s belt a great thing. ...
Data protection regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union, govern the collection and processing of personal data. Web scraping activities must respect these regulations by obtaining necessary consent from users before collecting their personal information. Add...