U.S. Senators unveiled comprehensive federal online privacy legislation to establish privacy rights, outlaw harmful and deceptive practices and improve data security safeguards.
The University of Rochester Medical Center has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the data breaches it suffered during 2013-2017.
An Internet Society report finds that most organizations do not comply with existing global privacy regulations and are not ready for additional regulations that are going into effect in 2020.
Research finds major challenges monitoring and managing privileged user access and activities, with 70 percent of respondents indicating users likely to access sensitive or confidential data without a business need.
Gov. John Bel Edwards (La.) and Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis of the La. National Guard announced plans to establish a major cybersecurity center on the Water Campus south of downtown Baton Rouge.