Data Privacy – Mirene Global Consults

ON WHATSAPP’s €225m FINE AND OTHER DATA PRIVACY MATTERS.

Data Privacy, Data Protection, NDPR / By mireneglobal

The Irish Data Protection Commission fines WhatsApp €225m (£193m). The fine stems from an ongoing investigation to ascertain whether WhatsApp has been transparent with how they process the data sets of users in their possession. Even after several policy updates, WhatsApp consistently fails to meet the European General Data Protection Regulation demands. The big question, …

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MANAGING THE THIRD-PARTY LIFECYCLE PROCESS IN INFORMATION GOVERNANCE.

Data Privacy, Data Protection, NDPR / By mireneglobal

Let’s call the company HSH Limited. The company uses a lot of third-party companies to serve their customers, to fulfil deliveries and to keep their physical environment clean and secure. They use other third-party companies for the storage, deletion and archiving of sensitive and non-sensitive data. In one of their third-party supplier audits, they found …

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VULNERABILITY IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Business, Data Privacy, Data Protection / By mireneglobal

It is important to define vulnerability first. The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre defines it as a “weakness in an IT system that can be exploited by an attacker to deliver a successful attack.” In other words, they are gaps that any group of unscrupulous individuals can use for malicious works.

Facebook and Apple Data Privacy War – An Insight

Data Privacy, Data Protection / By mireneglobal

written by Dr Mike Irene Many people trust social media companies like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, to mention those three. Despite opinion polls showing low public esteem for some of these companies regarding their data privacy methodologies. Focus here is on Facebook, their fight for what they call a “free” internet and the problem that arises. …

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