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How to stay secure
Another key step to keep your business safe from breaches is to ensure that your employees are following security best practices. To celebrate Data Privacy Day, weâve provided some practical steps to do this. For example:
Donât share your work computer with friends, housemates or family members: 26% of respondents admitted doing this
Donât download personal applications onto a company device: 23% of respondents admitted doing this
Donât work on a public wifi that is not protected: 22% of respondents admitted doing this
Donât share your corporate password with others: 12% of respondents admitted doing this
Donât leave your corporate devices unattended in a public space:10% of respondents admitted doing this
Do encourage your company to engage with multi-factor authentication (MFA), which gives you multiple layers of protection: Only 36% of respondents suggested that MFA had been implemented
The CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) is a California data protection law that came into effect on January 1, 2020. Following the passing of Prop 24, the CPRA (California Privacy Rights Act) will take effect officially on January 1, 2023 and replace the CCPA. The CPRA is widely viewed as Californiaâs version of the EUâs GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Just like the GDPR, it gives people more control over their personal data, and holds businesses more accountable for protecting the data they collect and process.
Once you have completed the California Consumer Privacy Act Foundation Online Training course, you will be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding ofâŻprivacy and cybersecurity lawâŻconcepts, andâŻbasis of national/state jurisdictionâŻ
Define terms used in the CCPA/CPRA and contrast to the GDPRâŻ
Articulate the rights of consumers, andâŻdetermineâŻthe duties of a businessâŻ
Court documents related to a recent gun-trafficking case in New York and obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool to access private Signal messages.
The documents revealed that encrypted messages can be intercepted from iPhone devices when they are in âpartial AFU (after first unlock)â mode.
âThe clues came via Seamus Hughes at the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University in court documents containing screenshots of Signal messages between men accused, in 2020, of running a gun trafficking operation in New York.â states Forbes. âThereâs also some metadata in the screenshots, which indicates not only that Signal had been decrypted on the phone, but that the extraction was done in âpartial AFU.â That latter acronym stands for âafter first unlockâ and describes an iPhone in a certain state: an iPhone that is locked but that has been unlocked once and not turned off.â
Here are our five key data privacy trends for this year.
1. There will be more public awareness of privacy rights
This year, we will see growing public awareness of privacy rights. There is a proliferation of information about data breaches, including commentary in the press regarding data breaches and class action suits, such as the one filed against British Airways.
All of this information is helping consumers become more aware of their rights.
Likewise, the collection by major private and public-sector organisations, as well as employers, of location- and health-related data will also drive employee and consumer awareness of data privacy.
The fact that employers must have a lawful reason for processing personal data means that even on the simple interface of employeeâemployer relationships, there is a growing awareness of individualsâ rights concerning data.
There is also an increased focus on supervisory authority decisions surrounding DSARs (data subject access requests), and the role they play in taking forward an employment law case.
Over the next year or two, DSARs will likely become a standard preliminary step in any employment-related legal action.
2. Brexit will continue to cause headaches
Brexit, of course, is the biggest immediate issue for UK and EU organisations, and they need to understand the relevance of the UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) â which is embedded in the DPA (Data Protection Act) 2018 as a localised version of the EU GDPR.
For example, references to the EU scope have been changed to the UK, and sections that relate to the actions of the EDPB (European Data Protection Board) have been removed, because its decisions are no longer applicable in the UK.
Organisations operating in the UK and the EU are subject to both regulations, and must keep an eye on the differences in the way they are interpreted and how that affects their compliance requirements.
3. We shouldnât expect an adequacy decision imminently
Another big concern for organisations operating in the UK and the EU is how to transfer personal data between the UK and the EU.
For data to be transferred freely, there needs to be an adequacy decision made by the EU in respect of the UK data protection regime. On the face of it, that should be straightforward, because its rules mirror those of the EU GDPR.
But in practical terms, itâs not quite as straightforward â not least because thereâs an intersection between the UK governmentâs bulk collection of personal data and the restrictions placed on that under the EU GDPR.
Currently, personal data can continue between the EU and the UK for a minimum of four months â until 30 April. If both parties agree, that can be extended for another two months.
In that period, the EU must decide whether to grant an adequacy decision to the UK. If it does, the UK will be adequate in the same way that the Channel Islands are, and personal data will be able to be moved between the EU and the UK freely.
The UK has already granted an adequacy finding in respect of the EU â so thatâs not an issue for moving data from the UK to the EU.
4. GDPR enforcement will be more consistent
In the EU, the approach to enforcing the GDPR is continuing to mature. In the 18 months after the Regulation took effect, there wasnât much in the way of major decisions, but in the past year there has been a growing number of decisions on a wide range of issues.
In some cases, the fines were miniscule, but in others the penalties were large.
Itâs clear that supervisory authorities are paying attention to the requirements of the GDPR â not just relating to data breaches but also violations of its data protection requirements.
We can expect to see supervisory authorities act with greater cohesion and make swifter decisions.
Although the UKâs ICO (Information Commissionerâs Office) has no obligation to follow through with decisions made in the EU, it will almost certainly pay attention to what is happening in the EU.
5. Cookie laws will come under greater scrutiny
From the perspective of most marketers and website users, cookies are a pain in the neck, but they are becoming an increasingly important part of data privacy.
So, cookies â and in particular the way organisations gain consent for their use â will become a significant issue in the EU and the UK.
Current regulations indicate that they apply whenever organisations provide a service into the EU, so weâll see more websites, wherever they are based, displaying big banners asking visitors to accept and review their cookie collection practices.
Likewise, people will increasingly review these practices to see whether organisations are getting legitimate consent and therefore meeting their regulatory requirements.
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By design, Brave Today doesn’t let the company or third parties build user profiles.
Brave Software, maker of the Brave Web browser, is introducing a news reader thatâs designed to protect user privacy by preventing partiesâboth internal and third partyâfrom tracking the sites, articles, and story topics people view.
Brave Today, as the service is called, is using technology that the company says sets it apart from news services offered by Google and Facebook. Itâs designed to deliver personalized news feeds in a way that leaves no trail for Brave, ISPs, and third parties to track. The new service is part of Braveâs strategy of differentiating its browser as more privacy-friendly than its competitors’.
Key to Brave Today is a new content delivery network the company is unveiling. Typically, news services use a single CDN to cache content and then serve it to users. This allows the CDN or the service using it to see both the IP address and news feed of each user, and over time, that data can help services build detailed profiles of a personâs interests.
The Brave Today CDN takes a different approach. Itâs designed in a way that separates a userâs IP address from the content they request. One entity offers a load-balancing service that receives TLS-encrypted traffic from the user. The load balancer then passes the traffic on to the CDN that processes the request.
The load balancer knows the userâs IP address, but because the request is encrypted, it has no visibility into the content the user is seeking. The CDN, meanwhile, sees only the request but has no way of knowing the IP address thatâs making it. Responses are delivered in reverse order. To prevent the data from being combined, Brave says that it will use one provider for load balancing and a different one for content delivery.
Consumer Rights under the CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT (CPRA) OF 2020
Purpose and Intent. In enacting this Act, It is the purpose and intent of the people of the State of California to further protect consumers’ rights, including the constitutional right of privacy. The implementation of this Act shall be guided by the following principles:
Consumer Rights
Consumers should know who is collecting their personal Information and that of their children, how it is being used, and to whom It is disclosed, so that they have the information necessary to exercise meaningful control over businesses’ use of their personal information and that of their children,
Consumers should be able to control the use of their personal information, including limiting the use of their sensitive personal Information, the unauthorized use or disclosure of which creates a heightened risk of harm to the consumer, and they should have meaningful options over how it is collected, used, and disclosed.
Consumers should have access to their personal information and should be able to correct it, delete it, and take it with them from one business to another.
Consumers or their authorized agents should be able to exercise these options through easily accessible self-serve tools.
Consumers should be able to exercise these rights without being penalized for doing so.
Consumers should be able to hold businesses accountable for falling to take reasonable precautions to protect their most sensitive personal information from hackers and security breaches.
Consumers should benefit from businesses’ use of their personal information.
The privacy interests of employees and independent contractors should also be protected, taking into account the differences in the relationship between employees or independent contractors and businesses, as compared to the relationship between consumers and businesses. In addition, this law is not intended to interfere with the right to organize and collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act. It is the purpose and Intent of the Act to extend the exemptions in this title for employee and business to business communications until January 1, 2023
Adds a right to opt out of automated decision-making technology, in connection with decisions related to a consumerâs work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements. Opt-out right explicitly extends to sharing of PI used for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Strengthens opt-in rights for minors. Extends the opt-in right to explicitly include the sharing of PI for behavioral advertising purposes. As with the opt-out right, businesses must wait 12 months before asking a minor for consent to sell or share his or her PI after the minor has declined to provide it.
These scams seek to collect personal information about you, often appearing to come from a real business or agency. Someone may pose as an official disaster aid worker, or send you a fraudulent COVID contact tracing email. If you receive a message with a link, you should not click it as it may download malware to your device to steal passwords and personal information. Government agencies like FEMA or the IRS will never contact you asking for a FEMA registration number, a Social Security number, or a bank account or credit card number to give you a COVID or FEMA paymentâor ask you to pay anything up front to fill out an application or to access state or federal resources.
Before sharing, check that what you are reading is from a trustworthy source. Disinformation can be life threatening in a global pandemic.
No cures or vaccines have been approved for COVID-19 yet. Online offers claiming to provide a medicine or device to treat or prevent COVID should be ignored. When there is a new breakthrough in the treatment and prevention of COVID, it will be widely reported on by reputable news sources.
Fake charities often emerge following a crisis, soliciting donations, but not using them for the described purpose. Before donating, check out www.ftc.gov/charity  to research the organization and make sure itâs legitimate.
If you receive a robocall, you should hang up instead of pushing any buttons or giving away any personal information. If a call claims to be from the IRS or FEMA, but demands immediate payment through debit card or wire transfer, it is fraudulent. Federal agencies will never demand immediate payment over the phone, threaten immediate arrest, or ask you to make a payment to anyone other than the U.S. Treasury.
Warning Signs that a Loved One may be the Victim of a ScamÂ
Victims to a scam may be embarrassed or uncomfortable asking for help. Itâs not always obvious when someone has been scammed, so check in with your loved ones frequently, especially if they are older, live alone, or are otherwise high risk.
Warning signs include large ATM withdrawals, charges, or checks; secretiveness and increased anxiety about finances; large quantities of goods being delivered that they do not need; an unusual number of phone calls or visits from strangers; and a sudden lack of money, unpaid bills, or a change in daily habits.
For more information, and to get help with a potential FEMA fraud, you can call the National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-5721 or FEMAâs Public Inquiry Unit at 916-210-6276. For questions about pandemic scams, go to www.ftc.gov/coronavirus or www.cdc.goc/coronavirus/2019-ncov .
Brave Browser, the privacy-focused web browser, announced today that it grew in usage by over 130% in its first year of the release of its ‘Stable’ version.
Tracking allows the companies to improve their algorithm and app experience, but this experience comes at the cost of your digital data. In this guide, we’re going to focus on the search engines and browsers that you’ll want to use if you care about your online privacy.
Popular search engines and browsers do a great job at finding and browsing content on the web, but can do a better job at protecting your privacy while doing so.
With your data being the digital currency of our times, websites, advertisers, browsers, and search engines track your behavior your on the web to deliver tailored advertising, improve their algorithms, or improve their services.
Privacy-focused search engines
Below are the best privacy-focused search engines that do not track your searchers or display advertisements based on your cookies or interests.
TikTok skirted a privacy safeguard in Googleâs Android operating system to collect unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices, data that allows the app to track users online without allowing them to opt out, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found.
The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies limiting how apps track people and wasnât disclosed to TikTok users. TikTok ended the practice in November, the Journalâs testing showed.
The identifiers collected by TikTok, called MAC addresses, are most commonly used for advertising purposes. The White House has said it is worried that usersâ data could be obtained by the Chinese government and used to build detailed dossiers on individuals for blackmail or espionage.
Twitter Inc had stepped up its search for a chief information security officer in recent weeks, two people familiar with the effort told Reuters, before the breach of high-profile accounts on Wednesday raised alarms about the platform’s security. Twitter said hackers had targeted employees with access to its internal systems and âused this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts.â
The second and third rounds of hijacked accounts tweeted out messages telling users to send bitcoin to a given address in order to get more back. Publicly available blockchain records show the apparent scammers received more than $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee was in touch with Twitter regarding the hack, according to a committee official who did not wish to be named.
ISO/IEC 27701 is the international standard that serves as an extension to an ISO 27001/ ISO 27002 #ISMS (information security management system). It provides guidelines for implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a #PIMS (privacy information management system).
Develop a privacy information management system as an extension to your ISO 27001-conformant ISMS with ISO/IEC 27701. Supports GDPR compliance.
SECURITY TECHNIQUES — EXTENSION TO ISO/IEC 27001 AND ISO/IEC 27002 FOR PRIVACY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM #PIMS
Key features:
* The Standard includes mapping to the GDPR, ISO/IEC 29100, ISO/IEC 27018, and ISO/IEC 29151
* Integrates with other management system standards, including the information security standard, ISO/IEC 27001
* Provides PIMS-specific guidance for ISO/IEC 27002
* Specifies requirements and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a PIMS
* Supports compliance with the GDPR and DPA 2018
* Provides guidance for data controllers and processors responsible for processing personal data
ISO 27701 Gap Analysis Tool
Achieve full compliance with ISO 27701:2019
The ISO 27701 Gap Analysis Tool has been created to help organizations identify whether they are meeting the requirements of the Standard and where they are falling short. Note that this tool assumes that you have a complete and functioning ISO 27001:2013 ISMS (information security management system).
It helps organizations prioritise work areas in order to expand an existing ISMS to take account of privacy. It also gives organizations direction, helping project managers identify where to start.
What does the tool do?
Contains a set of sample audit questions
Lists all ISO 27701:2019 requirements, identifying where documentation is mandatory for compliance
Provides a clear, colour-coded report on the state of compliance
The executive summary displays the results of compliance in a clear table so that you can report on your results and measure the closure of gaps.
The tool is designed to work in any Microsoft environment. It does not need to be installed like software, and it does not depend on complex databases; it relies on human involvement.
ISO 27701 The New Privacy Extension for ISO 27001
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Quick Guide to ISO/IEC 27701 – The Newest Privacy Information Standard
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