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Modern Data Protection

Author : W. Curtis Preston
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1492094005
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Modern Data Protection written by W. Curtis Preston and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your organization the data protection it deserves without the uncertainty and cost overruns experienced by your predecessors or other companies. System and network administrators have their work cut out for them to protect physical and virtual machines in the data center and the cloud; mobile devices including laptops and tablets; SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce; and persistent data created by Kubernetes and container workloads. To help you navigate the breadth and depth of this challenge, this book presents several solutions so you can determine which is right for your company. You'll learn the unique requirements that each workload presents, then explore various categories of commercial backup hardware, software, and services available to protect these data sources, including the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Learn the workload types that your organization should be backing up Explore the hardware, software, and services you can use to back up your systems Understand what's wrong with your current data protection system Pair your backed-up workloads to the appropriate backup system Learn the adjustments that will make your backups better, without wasting money

Data Protection

Author : Preston De Guise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781351689496
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection written by Preston De Guise and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the fundamental truth about data protection: backup is dead. Or rather, backup and recovery, as a standalone topic, no longer has relevance in IT. As a standalone topic, it's been killed off by seemingly exponential growth in storage and data, by the cloud, and by virtualization. So what is data protection?This book takes a holistic, business-based approach to data protection. It explains how data protection is a mix of proactive and reactive planning, technology and activities that allow for data continuity. It shows how truly effective data protection comes from a holistic approach considering the entire data lifecycle and all required SLAs. Data protection is neither RAID nor is it continuous availability, replication, snapshots or backups--it is all of them, combined in a considered and measured approach to suit the criticality of the data and meet all the requirements of the business. The book also discusses how businesses seeking to creatively leverage their IT investments and to drive through cost optimization are increasingly looking at data protection as a mechanism to achieve those goals. In addition to being a type of insurance policy, data protection is becoming an enabler for new processes around data movement and data processing. This book arms readers with information critical for making decisions on how data can be protected against loss in the cloud, on-premises, or in a mix of the two. It explains the changing face of recovery in a highly virtualized data center and techniques for dealing with big data. Moreover, it presents a model for where data recovery processes can be integrated with IT governance and management in order to achieve the right focus on recoverability across the business."--Provided by publisher.

Modern Data Protection

Author : W. Curtis Preston
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
ISBN 13 : 9781492094050
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Modern Data Protection written by W. Curtis Preston and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your organization the data protection it deserves, without the uncertainty and cost overruns experienced by your predecessors or other companies. System and network administrators today have their work cut out for them to protect physical and virtual machines in the data center and the cloud, mobile devices including laptops and tablets, SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce, and any persistent data created by Kubernetes and container workloads. To help you navigate the breadth and depth of this challenge, this book presents several solutions so you can determine which one is right for your company. You'll learn the unique requirements that each workload presents, then explore various categories of commercial backup hardware, software, and services available to protect these data sources, including the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Learn the workload types that your organization should be backing up Explore the hardware, software, and services you can use to back up your systems Understand what's wrong with your current data protection system Pair your backed-up workloads to the appropriate backup system Learn the adjustments you need to make to make your backups better, without wasting money

Consumer Privacy and Data Protection

Author : Daniel J. Solove
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543832601
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Privacy and Data Protection written by Daniel J. Solove and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short paperback, developed from the casebook Information Privacy Law,contains key cases and materials focusing on privacy issues related to consumer privacy and data security. This book is designed for use in courses and seminars on: Cyberlaw Law and technology Privacy law Information law Consumer law New to the Third Edition: CCPA, biometric privacy laws FTC Facebook Cambridge Analytica case United States v. Gratkowski (Bitcoin and the Fourth Amendment) In re Vizio, Inc. Additional material about TCPA litigation, including Stoops v. Wells Fargo Bank Additional material on the FCC Act Additional material on the Video Privacy Protection Act Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Topics covered include: Big Data, financial privacy, FCRA, GLBA, FTC privacy and security regulation Identity theft, online behavioral advertising First Amendment limitations on privacy regulation Data breaches, data breach notification statutes Privacy of video watching and media consumptions CFAA, enforcement of privacy policies, marketing use of data, and more

GDPR: Personal Data Protection in the European Union

Author : Mariusz Krzysztofek
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403532718
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book GDPR: Personal Data Protection in the European Union written by Mariusz Krzysztofek and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GDPR: Personal Data Protection in the European Union Mariusz Krzysztofek Personal data protection has become one of the central issues in any understanding of the current world system. In this connection, the European Union (EU) has created the most sophisticated regime currently in force with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. Following the GDPR’s recent reform – the most extensive since the first EU laws in this area were adopted and implemented into the legal orders of the Member States – this book offers a comprehensive discussion of all principles of personal data processing, obligations of data controllers, and rights of data subjects, providing a thorough, up-to-date account of the legal and practical aspects of personal data protection in the EU. Coverage includes the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment on data transfers and new or updated data protection authorities’ guidelines in the EU Member States. Among the broad spectrum of aspects of the subject covered are the following: – right to privacy judgments of the CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights; – scope of the GDPR and its key definitions, key principles of personal data processing; – legal bases for the processing of personal data; – direct and digital marketing, cookies, and online behavioural advertising; – processing of personal data of employees; – sensitive data and criminal records; – information obligation & privacy notices; – data subjects rights; – data controller, joint controllers, and processors; – data protection by design and by default, data security measures, risk-based approach, records of personal data processing activities, notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority and communication to the data subject, data protection impact assessment, codes of conduct and certification; – Data Protection Officer; – transfers of personal data to non-EU/EEA countries; and – privacy in the Internet and surveillance age. Because the global scale and evolution of information technologies have changed the data processing environment and brought new challenges, and because many non-EU jurisdictions have adopted equivalent regimes or largely analogous regulations, the book will be of great usefulness worldwide. Multinational corporations and their customers and contractors will benefit enormously from consulting and using this book, especially in conducting case law, guidelines and best practices formulated by European data protection authorities. For lawyers and academics researching or advising clients on this area, this book provides an indispensable source of practical guidance and information for many years to come.

Data Protection Implementation Guide

Author : Brendan Quinn
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403529016
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection Implementation Guide written by Brendan Quinn and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexities of implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continue to grow as it progresses through new and ever-changing technologies, business models, codes of conduct, and decisions of the supervisory authorities, and the courts. This eminently practical guide to implementing the GDPR – written in an original, problem-solving style by a highly experienced data protection expert with equal knowledge of both law and technology – provides a step-by-step project management approach to building a GDPR-compliant data protection system, assessing, and documenting the risks and then implementing these changes through processes at the operational level. With detailed attention to case law (Member State, ECJ, and ECHR), especially where affecting high-risk areas that have attracted scrutiny, the guidance proceeds systematically through such topics and issues as the following: required documentation, policies, and procedures; risk assessment tools and analysis frameworks; children’s data; employee and health data; international transfers post-Schrems II; data subject rights including the right of access; data retention and erasure; tracking and surveillance; and effects of technologies such as artificial intelligence, biometrics, and machine learning. With its practical examples derived from the author’s experience in building GDPR-compliant software, as well as its analysis of case law and enforcement priorities, this incomparable guide enables company data protection officers and compliance staff to advise on key issues with full awareness of the legal and reputational risks and how to mitigate them. It is also sure to be of immeasurable value to concerned regulators and policymakers at all government levels. “…it's going to be the go to resource for practitioners.” Tom Gilligan, Data Protection Consultant, September 2021 "I purchased this book recently and I’m very glad I did. It’s the textbook I have been waiting for. As someone relatively new to data protection, I was finding it very difficult to find books on the practical side of data protection. This book is very clearly laid out with practical examples and case law given for each topic, which is immensely helpful. I would recommend it to any data protection practitioners." Jennifer Breslin, LLM CIPP/E, AIPP Member

Reinventing Data Protection?

Author : Serge Gutwirth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402094981
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Data Protection? written by Serge Gutwirth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: data. Furthermore, the European Union established clear basic principles for the collection, storage and use of personal data by governments, businesses and other organizations or individuals in Directive 95/46/EC and Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic communications. Nonetheless, the twenty-?rst century citizen – utilizing the full potential of what ICT-technology has to offer – seems to develop a digital persona that becomes increasingly part of his individual social identity. From this perspective, control over personal information is control over an aspect of the identity one projects in the world. The right to privacy is the freedom from unreasonable constraints on one’s own identity. Transactiondata–bothtraf?candlocationdata–deserveourparticularattention. As we make phone calls, send e-mails or SMS messages, data trails are generated within public networks that we use for these communications. While traf?c data are necessary for the provision of communication services, they are also very sensitive data. They can give a complete picture of a person’s contacts, habits, interests, act- ities and whereabouts. Location data, especially if very precise, can be used for the provision of services such as route guidance, location of stolen or missing property, tourist information, etc. In case of emergency, they can be helpful in dispatching assistance and rescue teams to the location of a person in distress. However, p- cessing location data in mobile communication networks also creates the possibility of permanent surveillance.

The Emergence of Personal Data Protection as a Fundamental Right of the EU

Author : Gloria González Fuster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 3319050230
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Personal Data Protection as a Fundamental Right of the EU written by Gloria González Fuster and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the coming into being in European Union (EU) law of the fundamental right to personal data protection. Approaching legal evolution through the lens of law as text, it unearths the steps that led to the emergence of this new right. It throws light on the right’s significance, and reveals the intricacies of its relationship with privacy. The right to personal data protection is now officially recognised as an EU fundamental right. As such, it is expected to play a critical role in the future European personal data protection legal landscape, seemingly displacing the right to privacy. This volume is based on the premise that an accurate understanding of the right’s emergence is crucial to ensure its correct interpretation and development. Key questions addressed include: How did the new right surface in EU law? How could the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights claim to render ‘more visible’ an invisible right? And how did EU law allow for the creation of a new right while ensuring consistency with existing legal instruments and case law? The book first investigates the roots of personal data protection, studying the redefinition of privacy in the United States in the 1960s, as well as pioneering developments in European countries and in international organisations. It then analyses the EU’s involvement since the 1970s up to the introduction of legislative proposals in 2012. It grants particular attention to changes triggered in law by language and, specifically, by the coexistence of languages and legal systems that determine meaning in EU law. Embracing simultaneously EU law’s multilingualism and the challenging notion of the untranslatability of words, this work opens up an inspiring way of understanding legal change. This book will appeal to legal scholars, policy makers, legal practitioners, privacy and personal data protection activists, and philosophers of law, as well as, more generally, anyone interested in how law works.

Data Protection on the Move

Author : Serge Gutwirth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401773769
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection on the Move written by Serge Gutwirth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers that offer methodologies, conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection. It is one of the results of the eight annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection, CPDP 2015, held in Brussels in January 2015. The book explores core concepts, rights and values in (upcoming) data protection regulation and their (in)adequacy in view of developments such as Big and Open Data, including the right to be forgotten, metadata, and anonymity. It discusses privacy promoting methods and tools such as a formal systems modeling methodology, privacy by design in various forms (robotics, anonymous payment), the opportunities and burdens of privacy self management, the differentiating role privacy can play in innovation. The book also discusses EU policies with respect to Big and Open Data and provides advice to policy makers regarding these topics. Also attention is being paid to regulation and its effects, for instance in case of the so-called ‘EU-cookie law’ and groundbreaking cases, such as Europe v. Facebook. This interdisciplinary book was written during what may turn out to be the final stages of the process of the fundamental revision of the current EU data protection law by the Data Protection Package proposed by the European Commission. It discusses open issues and daring and prospective approaches. It will serve as an insightful resource for readers with an interest in privacy and data protection.

Data Protection Around the World

Author : Elif Kiesow Cortez
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9462654077
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection Around the World written by Elif Kiesow Cortez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a snapshot of privacy laws and practices from a varied set of jurisdictions in order to offer guidance on national and international contemporary issues regarding the processing of personal data and serves as an up-to-date resource on the applications and practice-relevant examples of data protection laws in different countries. Privacy violations emerging at an ever-increasing rate, due to evolving technology and new lifestyles linked to an intensified online presence of ever more individuals, required the design of a novel data protection and privacy regulation. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) stands as an example of a regulatory response to these demands. The authors included in this book offer an in-depth analysis of the national data protection legislation of various countries across different continents, not only including country-specific details but also comparing the idiosyncratic characteristics of these national privacy laws to the GDPR. Valuable comparative information on data protection regulations around the world is thus provided in one concise volume. Due to the variety of jurisdictions covered and the practical examples focused on, both academics and legal practitioners will find this book especially useful, while for compliance practitioners it can serve as a guide regarding transnational data transfers. Elif Kiesow Cortez is Senior Lecturer at the International and European Law Program at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands.

Handbook on European data protection law

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287198497
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on European data protection law written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and significant challenges as technological advances expand the frontiers of areas such as surveillance, communication interception and data storage. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of the law. It provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.

Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019158035X
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law written by Peter Carey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to issues arising in relation to data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of all of the significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of the wealth of guidance published by the Information Commissioner since the last edition. The third edition includes new material on the changes to the Commissioner's powers and new guidance from the Commissioner's office, coverage of new cases on peripheral aspects of data protection compliance and examples of enforcement, the new code on CCTV processing, the new employment code, clarification on the definition of "personal data", the binding corporate rules on the exemption to the export data ban and the new ICT set of model contractual provisions for data exports, and the proposed action by the EU against the UK for failing to implement the Data Protection Directive appropriately. There are new chapters on terminology and data security.

Information Sharing and Data Protection in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

Author : Franziska Boehm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783642223921
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Information Sharing and Data Protection in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice written by Franziska Boehm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privacy and data protection in police work and law enforcement cooperation has always been a challenging issue. Current developments in EU internal security policy, such as increased information sharing (which includes the exchange of personal data between European law enforcement agencies and judicial actors in the area of freedom, security and justice (Europol, Eurojust, Frontex and OLAF)) and the access of EU agencies, in particular Europol and Eurojust, to data stored in European information systems such as the SIS (II), VIS, CIS or Eurodac raise interesting questions regarding the balance between the rights of individuals and security interests. This book deals with the complexity of the relations between these actors and offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the structures for information exchange in the area of freedom, security and justice and their compliance with data protection rules in this field.

Internet of Things Security and Data Protection

Author : Sébastien Ziegler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030049841
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Internet of Things Security and Data Protection written by Sébastien Ziegler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the most recent developments in Internet of Things (IoT) security and data protection. It presents the results of several international research projects addressing this topic from complementary angles. It starts by analyzing the main privacy and security threats on IoT, as well as the evolution of data protection norms, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and their impact on IoT. Through a comprehensive and systematic approach, the contributors present new perspectives on IoT & Cloud Computing security requirements. They discuss the most recent approach to support trusted IoT, including new models of privacy risk assessment, labeling and certification, and contractual tools (such as Privacy PACT). Practical implementations, such as in the European Large Scale Pilots on IoT for Smart Cities (Synchronicity), are presented, explaining how they address security, privacy and data protection. Finally, innovative models to secure IoT systems are presented for the network and end-nodes security, including network threats analysis.

Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures

Author : Ronald Leenes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319507966
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures written by Ronald Leenes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features peer reviewed contributions from across the disciplines on themes relating to protection of data and to privacy protection. The authors explore fundamental and legal questions, investigate case studies and consider concepts and tools such as privacy by design, the risks of surveillance and fostering trust. Readers may trace both technological and legal evolution as chapters examine current developments in ICT such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Written during the process of the fundamental revision of revision of EU data protection law (the 1995 Data Protection Directive), this volume is highly topical. Since the European Parliament has adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679), which will apply from 25 May 2018, there are many details to be sorted out. This volume identifies and exemplifies key, contemporary issues. From fundamental rights and offline alternatives, through transparency requirements to health data breaches, the reader is provided with a rich and detailed picture, including some daring approaches to privacy and data protection. The book will inform and inspire all stakeholders. Researchers with an interest in the philosophy of law and philosophy of technology, in computers and society, and in European and International law will all find something of value in this stimulating and engaging work.

European Data Protection, Third Edition

Author : Eduardo Ustaran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948771719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book European Data Protection, Third Edition written by Eduardo Ustaran and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Data Protection Law in the EU

Author : Brendan Van Alsenoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780688282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Data Protection Law in the EU written by Brendan Van Alsenoy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practically every organisation in the world processes personal data. European data protection law imposes a series of requirements designed to protect individuals against the risks that result from the processing of their data. It also distinguishes among different types of actors involved in the processing and sets out different obligations for each type of actor. The most important distinction in this regard is the distinction between 'controllers' and 'processors'. This book seeks to determine whether EU data protection law should continue to maintain its current distinction.