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A Guide to The New Brexit Trade Agreement

The long-awaited Brexit agreement is here. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which details the conditions of the UK’s relationship with the EU, took provisional effect on January 1, 2021. The agreement’s free trade and security frameworks have many data…

Why Data Trusts Are a Win-Win for Companies and Consumers

November 17, 2020
Max Totsky
Artificial Intelligence, Compliance, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Rights Management (DRM), data trusts, differential privacy, Federated Learning, Financial Services, GDPR, Machine Learning, Uncategorized, US Regulatory

Data is imperative to many crucial business processes, like marketing, product development, fraud protection, and AI. But complying with proliferating and conflicting data privacy regulations is far from easy. And asking consumers to be responsible for making decisions about their own data privacy isn’t a solid solution. One AI expert has proposed a solution: data…

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Explaining the DOJ’s Enforcement Guidance for Cryptocurrency

November 4, 2020
Max Totsky
Uncategorized

While the cryptocurrency craze is far from new, there are many unanswered questions about how the industry should be regulated. To fill the gaps, the Department of Justice released a publication offering guidance for handling issues created by cryptocurrency. The framework examines what can be done to make sure crypto doesn’t threaten public safety or…

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Dubai’s New Privacy Law Takes Effect Next Month

September 22, 2020
Max Totsky
Uncategorized

By October 2020, businesses will need to adjust their privacy practices to comply with a new law. This time, it comes from Dubai. The law, known as DPL 2020, does not call for dramatic adjustment from organizations already complying with GDPR, although there are some changes. Here’s everything you need to know before the law…

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OCC Fines Capital One: Key Takeaways

August 11, 2020
Max Totsky
Banks, Breach prevention, Breach response, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Financial Services, Uncategorized

Last year, Capital One experienced one of the largest-ever data breaches of a bank, when a hacker–Paige Thompson–got her hands on the personal information of over 106 million customers and applicants via a misconfigured AWS server. Now, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has hit the bank with a whopping $80 million…

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Why Your Organization Should Adopt “Zero Trust”

“Trust no one” may be a harsh motto to live by, but when it comes to data privacy and security, those words just make good sense. Such cynical wariness is the strategy behind "zero trust"--an IT security model built around…

What is Federated Learning? And How Can Differential Privacy Make it Better?

June 3, 2020
Tim Crino
Artificial Intelligence, Breach prevention, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Members Only, Uncategorized

Machine learning is a constantly growing technology. But some recent developments are particularly noteworthy for business leaders because they are paving the way for fairer, safer, more private, and more affordable machine learning algorithms. In 2017, Google announced that machine learning models trained with user interaction from mobile devices would adopt federated learning while, in…

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Opinion: COVID-19 and Data Privacy: Health vs. Privacy

This article was published on March 26, 2020 on Business Law Today, a publication of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section at https://businesslawtoday.org/2020/03/covid-19-data-privacy-health-vs-privacy/. We received permission for Mr. Claypoole to republish for the ADCG community. The Black Death stole people’s…

How Organizations Should Prepare for the New York SHIELD Act

January 21, 2020
Joy Meason Intriago
New York State, Uncategorized, US Regulatory
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How Organizations Should Get Ready for the New York SHIELD Act In the absence of comprehensive federal data protection privacy standards, states are taking matters into their own hands by passing legislation to protect the private information that companies acquire…

New York Privacy Act: It Goes Beyond CCPA

The idea that consumers own their private financial information can be traced to an early 1970s California state constitutional amendment adding ‘privacy’ to guarantees of life, liberty, and other inalienable rights. While financial privacy is not explicitly mentioned in this…