by CDO Review Staff | Apr 5, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Online shoe retailer Zappos wanted the Supreme Court to throw out a class action suit filed by its customers whose personal information was stolen. The Court told Zappos: no. Andrew Chung filed this report on the Zappos case for Reuters: The justices denied an appeal...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Government
Citizens of Utah can rest easy that their personal data stored in third-party servers like those of Google or Facebook can no longer obtained by US government agencies except through a search warrant. Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed HB 57 into law March 28, making...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 22, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Healthcare
Just as big data and analytics are leading to advances in healthcare delivery, they too are opening new ways for bad actors to exploit privacy holes and steal patient data. Governments around the world have been releasing huge troves of “anonymized” patient data in an...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Earlier this January, Apple trolled Google and Amazon with an ad saying “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.” Apple also added a link to apple.com/privacy to underline the Cupertino-based company’s privacy advantage over its top competitors. But Vlad...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is touting a federal data privacy bill that is meant to supersede a hodge-podge of conflicting state laws. Here is an excerpt from a report from Fortune: The bill, titled the American Data Dissemination Act, requires the Federal Trade...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Nearly three terabytes worth of sensitive government files were left unguarded for a week on a wide-open server. Lindsey O’Donnell filed this report in Threatpost. Millions of sensitive files on a storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities were...
