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Episode 90 - The Edge and Personal Data Privacy
Protecting and using personal information has focused on computer and software technology. With the Internet of Things (IoT), the Edge has arrived – the place where de...
Episode 89 - Restaurants and Personal Data Privacy
What’s at stake as Congress considers a national data privacy law? The National Restaurant Association is the U.S.’ leading trade association for the restaurant an...
Episode 88 - India’s Six-Hour Deadline to Report Cyberattacks to Government
Through a new cybersecurity regulation, businesses in India will have six hours to report cyberattacks to the government, pursuant to a regulation that comes into forc...
Episode 87 - Japan’s Data Privacy Approach
Japan is a major U.S. ally commercially and otherwise. What is the Japanese approach to personal data privacy, and how does it differ from the U.S.’s privacy culture? ...
Episode 86 - Blockchain and Privacy - The First Imposition of U.S. Sanctions
Blockchain. Does it protect personal privacy? Is it a tool that can evade the law? How should we think about the relationship between blockchain technology and individ...
Episode 85 - Japan’s New Data Privacy Act, 4 Key Developments
Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) becomes effective on April 1, 2022. The APPI strengthens the country’s comprehensive personal data privacy...
Episode 84 - The Role of EU Data Protection Officers
The data protection laws of the European Union require many European and other companies holding or processing personal information of EU residents to appoint a Data P...
Episode 83 - Ethical Hacking and Data System Assessments
Hacking – it gets a bad rap. For good reason. It’s associated with bad actors who infiltrate an IT system and steal organizational and personal information for crimina...
Episode 82 - India’s Imminent Data Privacy Law
India is about to enact a far-reaching Data Privacy Law. Expected to be passed by April 2022 and in force as early as 1st quarter 2023, it represents a far-reaching co...
Episode 81 - Quantum Computing and Data Privacy Does a Privacy Apocalypse Draw Near?
Quantum computing – some view its emergence as heralding the end of data privacy. It threatens to penetrate encryption used in conventional computing to give hackers r...
Episode 80 - Backup and Privacy
Backup – what does it have to do with protecting data privacy? And how does a backup service work? What should businesses and individuals know about backing up their d...
Episode 79 - Data Localization - The Case of Taiwan
Taiwan occupies a unique geopolitical position – with a substantial population and robust economy, it lacks formal diplomatic recognition by most countries and is cons...
Episode 78 - Data Localization - The Case of Turkey
Turkey is the first 2022 stop on our global tour about data localization. What is Turkey’s approach to cross-border transfers of personal data about its citizens and r...
Episode 77 - Data Localization - The Case of Singapore
The Data Privacy Detectives turns his data localization spotlight on the island nation of Singapore. With a per capita income of 64% higher than the United Kingdom’s a...
Episode 76 - Data Localization - The Case of Australia
Our prior podcast episodes detailed how China, Russia, and to a lesser extent India have created barriers to the free flow of personal information across borders. Data...
Episode 75 - Data Localization - The Case of Russia
We turn to Russia in our data localization series. Russia’s 2015 personal data protection law requires “data operators” to collect and keep information about Russian r...
Episode 74 - Data Localization - The Case of India
In this second podcast episode about data localization, we spotlight India. Since 1993 the world’s largest democracy has enacted data localization laws aiming to keep ...
Episode 73 - Data Localization - The Case of China
The internet and the worldwide web – the words envision a global communications system that transcends national borders. But the reality differs. Is it increasingly th...
Episode 72 - Personal Privacy Within Your Home
Home is our private place. But in the digital age, how private are our homes? And what can we do to protect our privacy from home invaders? 66% of us rate our highest ...
Episode 71 - Doxing and Kentucky’s Pioneering Anti-Doxing Statute
Kentucky is perhaps the first state to adopt a comprehensive anti-doxing statute that creates a civil tort of doxing, as well as providing explicit criminal penalties ...
Episode 70 - Backup Copies: Preserving Your Privacy and Business Data
Mike Potter’s cat bounced on his keyboard years ago. His hard drive cratered, and he lost his data. But he turned this disaster from feline treachery into a career and...
Episode 69 - Ransomware, Negotiating With Digital Kidnappers
Ransomware. It’s in the headlines. It’s digital organized crime across borders. When an organization’s IT system freezes with its data locked by a ransomware gang, ...
Episode 68 - Catching Cyber-Criminals With Digital Forensics
Ransomware attacks, data breaches, digital theft – on the rise. Who are the cyber-criminals? Can they be traced? And what can a company do to minimize risk and respond...
Episode 67 - Data Flows After Brexit... For Now
Europe finds UK data privacy system adequate, for now. On June 28, 2021, the Europe Union granted two adequacy decisions to the United Kingdom for personal privacy pur...
Episode 66 - Phone Scams and You
This is a true story of a phone scam of May 2021. The Data Privacy Detective got a call on the home landline. This scam will succeed in stealing money from countles...
Episode 65 - Ransomware Basics
This podcast episode explores ransomware from preventive, legal, and communications angles. While there’s no 100% effective vaccination against a ransomware attack, th...
Episode 64 - The Two Faces of Browsers and Our Privacy Options
Janus was the Roman god of doors, gates, and transitions. He needed two faces to look in both directions - life and death, past and future. Internet browsers allow us ...
Episode 63 - Your Face, Time To Scrub?
Facial recognition. It’s a hot topic. Targeting, misidentification, and doxing - the dangers are real. So are the benefits – finding criminals and solving crimes, sear...
Episode 62 - TIKTOK and Privacy: Challenges from Europe and America
On February 16, 2021 TikTok was sued in Europe for abusing consumer rights. Millions of Europeans use TikTok to post, share and watch videos 3 to 60 seconds long, rang...
Episode 61 - How Not To Get Phished!
Data theft set new records in 2020. The major causes are not failures of equipment, software, or services. In an estimated 85% of cybercrime, the cause is us. We make ...