Personal data of more than 500,000 consumers from 15 states were stolen in the 2013 breach of Adobe server. Under a multistate agreement, Adobe Systems has been told to pay $1 million to approximately 552,000 consumers for a data breach that occurred in 2013 during which hackers stole their payment card details, names, addresses and […]
It’s been a couple of months since the EU-US Privacy Shield data-sharing framework went into effect. Adoption of the measure was a nail-biter because of redrafts and threats from European privacy advocates that they’d challenge it. The agreement was adopted on July 12 and is now the basis under which cross-border transfer of individuals’ private […]
European officials on Tuesday gave the final stamp of approval to a long-awaited data transfer deal between the U.S. and the European Union, allowing the agreement to go into effect after more than eight months of negotiations. The so-called Privacy Shield is intended to allow thousands of companies — from social media to hospitality — to […]
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