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The Ministry of Security and Justice is currently conducting a public consultation on a draft bill to amend the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act.
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A bill that would require organizations processing the personal information of more than 10,000 people to put data protection requirements in place has been introduced in the Senate.
The Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act, S.1535, was introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. It would require covered organizations to submit to testing of their controls and systems and set notification requirements in case of a data breach.
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The upper house of the Dutch parliament (Eerste Kamer) has adopted the legislative proposal to amend the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act (Wet besch...
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In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Proposed Collection: Title: Solar Cell: A Mobile UV Manager for Smart Phones (NCI). Type of Information Collection Request: New. Need and Use of Information Collection: The overall goal of the study is to design a smart phone application, Solar Cell, which uses smart phone technology to aid users in protecting their skin from damaging ultraviolet radiation (UV) in sunlight, a primary cause of skin cancer....
... decision-making related to sun protection and exposure by Americans to reduce the risk of de... mobile smart phone application combines personal and behavior data with geo-. spatial data (i.e., U...
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THE EXPLOSION of information power has become a fundamental feature of business worldwide. The operational and commercial success of many organisation...
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Article by Candice Teitlebaum*
In May 2008, I discussed the impact of transborder data flows and the existence of the USA PATRIOT Act1 in the contex...
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The E.U. has been at the forefront of global data privacy since 1995. The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the Directive) and national legislation implemented in E.U. Member States, like the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), provide broad definitions of "Personal Data" and who is deemed to be a "Data Controller," ensuring that virtually all background due diligence companies and their clients, such as banks, pension funds, hedge funds and consultants, are caught in the net of the E.U. data privacy laws. As will be explained, what is covered under the DPA is far broader than what investigative firms likely thought; rather than relating solely to identifying information that if mishandled could lead to identity theft, the gathering of background information itself (under the scenar...
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... statistical analysis through improved use of data in the state information system. Legislation enact...* Personal Data Protection Act 95/46/EC. * Information Societ...
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The UK Court of Appeal issued judgment in December 2003 in the case of Durant v. Financial Services Authority. The judgment provides important guidanc...
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The Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (the Act) was signed into law on Apr 20, 2005, and took effect on Oct 20, 2005. The Act represents the most significant change in personal bankruptcy law since the Bankruptcy Code's (the Code) enactment in 1978. In the section I in this article describes the two primary bankruptcy routes for which consumer debtors may opt: chapter 7 or chapter 13. In Section II, the paper presents empirical evidence of the effect of the Act on both the number of personal bankruptcies, and on the relative fraction of chapter 7 and chapter 13 filings. In Section III, the paper provides a discussion of the meaning of the fresh start, and put the Act in both historical and international perspective. Early statistical data supports the conclusion that ...