How to protect online privacy in the age of pixel trackers
Tracking pixels like the Meta and TikTok pixels are popular tools for online businesses to monitor their website visitors’ behaviors and preferences, but they do come …
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All of Medibank’s stolen data leaked, Australia increases maximum penalties for data breaches
Australian health insurance provider Medibank has confirmed that another batch of the customer data stolen in the recent breach has been leaked. “We are conducting …
EU Council adopts the NIS2 directive
The European Council adopted legislation for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union, to further improve the resilience and incident response capacities of both …
How to deal with unprecedented levels of regulatory change
There are four primary options available to legal and compliance leaders to cope with unprecedented levels of regulatory change, according to Gartner. These regulatory changes …
Using compliance to create value for your organization
In this video for Help Net Security, Patrick Sullivan, VP of Customer Success at A-LIGN, talks about the value of modern compliance programs. As organizations work on …
EU’s NIS 2 Directive to strengthen cybersecurity requirements for companies
The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and EU Member States on the Directive on measures for a high common level of …
The evolving role of the lawyer in cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is one of the most dynamic fields of law. Long gone are the days when organizations could rely entirely on defensive measures within their own environments for …
Biden legitimizes cryptocurrency with regulatory exploration
For some time, cryptocurrency was considered a fringe currency – a libertarian means of investing that challenged the traditional framework of brokers, trade desks and …
An introduction to U.S. data compliance laws
Due to technological advances like the rise of cloud storage and social media, there is an increasing concern over privacy — especially when it comes to how businesses collect …
Three areas legal leaders should focus their technology efforts in
As legal and compliance teams have faced acute pressures since the global pandemic and are struggling to manage their workload, legal leaders should focus their technology …
Even the US president wants zero trust: Here’s how to make it a reality
President Biden’s executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity requires agency heads to develop a plan to implement a zero-trust architecture to effectively …
SMEs awareness of GDPR is high, but few adhere to its legal requirements
85 percent of the small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are familiar with GDPR, but more than half are still not cleaning their data and therefore not adhering …