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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Identity theft also affects around 1.4 Staying safe on the internet means knowing what privacy data is and how to help protect your personal information.

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What is Maryland’s Online Data Privacy Protection Act?

Centraleyes

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. states in enforcing its residents’ privacy rights thus far.

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US State Privacy Update: Colorado AG Identifies CPA Rulemaking Topics and Releases Data Security Best Practices Guidance

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

On July 7, 2021, Colorado became the third state in the US behind California and Virginia to enact a comprehensive data privacy law – the CPA. The CPA, which provides Colorado residents broad new rights over how their data is collected and used by covered organizations, takes effect on July 1, 2023. CPA Background.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Management Problems Have Created a Privacy Nightmare For Americans – Even Without Vaccine Passports

Joseph Steinberg

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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Not the Invasion They Warned Us About: TikTok and the Continued Erosion of Online Privacy

Approachable Cyber Threats

Should TikTok be breached, like many companies before them, your data can be obtained by hackers and scammers. Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Top 10 Cloud Privacy Recommendations for Consumers

McAfee

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. This may give them the right, or at least enough rights in their own mind, to sell your data to data brokers.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”. All sensitive data should only be stored for the amount of time required and in accordance with any data privacy policies,” said Smith. Long-term data storage is often a liability rather than an asset,” added Costlow.