Although often used interchangeably in common discourse, for the purposes of human research protection, the terms "privacy" and "confidentiality" represent two different concepts: one related to the ...

In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a dispute highlighting the tension between the broad discovery allowable in U.S. civil litigation and the fundamental protection of personal data abroad and ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. In the legal industry, confidentiality is integral, serving not only as an ethical duty but also what sets trust among clients and ...

The grocery business may be “fresh and easy,” but drafting a confidentiality and data protection policy that withstands the scrutiny of the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is not. The ...

In our digital age, transparency is a business imperative. There are more ways than ever to connect and information and data is readily available. Secrets are out, but trust is definitely in. The ...

A major issue confronting health-data systems is the protection of privacy and confidentiality. State laws covering health-information disclosure are geared to specific information rather than to ...

The US Census Bureau implemented a new disclosure control strategy for the 2020 Census that adds deliberate error to every population statistic for every geographic ...

Offenders hijack connections between clients and servers by creating two connections (offender and client, and offender and server). The purpose of this attack is to surreptitiously intercept, receive ...

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The DPDP rules call for the setting up of a Data Protection Board, a key regulatory body. The rules also guide data breach ...