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The oft-delayed Massachusetts Data Privacy regulations (201 C.M.R. 17.00) finally go into effect on March 1, 2010.
While most states (44 by last count) have enacted Data Breach Notification statutes, the new Massachusetts law goes much further by mandating that businesses be proactive in their efforts to protect Massachusetts residents’ personal information.
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Every week for the past four years the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRCH), an organization dedicated to empowering consumers and protecting privacy, has been chronicling data breaches on a weekly basis.
These range from small, regional breaches, which may involve a local business or hospital, to national breaches that typically revolve around credit and debit cards.
“These are the mega-breaches that can skew the figures in terms of the number of people victimized,” says Paul Stephens, PRCH’s director of policy and advocacy.
Read moreSecurity researchers Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer revisited a topic near and dear to their hearts at ShmooCon 2009 - security on social networks. Afterward, they spoke to eWEEK about some of the top changes that could make using sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn more secure.Read more