Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 23, 2023, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced the program for the 2023 Data Privacy Week campaign that will take place from January 22 to 28, 2023, to continue to raise awareness about the importance of digital privacy for consumers and businesses, according to a news…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it secured agreements requiring a video game maker to pay $520 million in relief over allegations the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and deployed “dark patterns” to trick players into making unintentional purchases. According…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 13, 2022, the European Commission issued a draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework which will foster trans-Atlantic data transfers between the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) by ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data, the Commission announced. With the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 7, 2022, United States President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that outlined steps the U.S. government will take to implement a new data privacy framework for data transfers between the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) that will replace the invalidated EU-U.S. Privacy…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the nation’s consumer protection agency – has released the final agenda for its seventh annual PrivacyCon event which will take place online starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, according to a press release from the FTC. PrivacyCon…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – which works to reduce risk to America’s cyber infrastructure – is leading a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise cybersecurity awareness nationally and internationally every October during Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This campaign theme for 2022 – “See Yourself…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 1, 2022, United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement about Federal legislation under consideration called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA)” and said the Act “does not guarantee the same essential consumer protections as California’s existing privacy laws.” House Speaker…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn ClearStar – a leading provider of drug testing and background screening – has been awarded recertification of the ISO 27001:2013 standard and its first certification under the ISO 27018:2019 security standard for the public cloud computing environment by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), a third-party certification body…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In June 2022, United States House and Senate leaders released a discussion draft of a comprehensive national data security framework called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” the first privacy proposal to gain bipartisan support, according to a press release on the House Committee on Energy and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling for research presentations on a wide range of privacy and data security topics such as commercial surveillance and automated decision making for its seventh annual PrivacyCon 2022 event that will take place virtually on November 1, 2022. PrivacyCon 2022 will bring…
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