All news with #data governance tag

🔐 EuroDaT describes how its safeAML platform, built on Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine, enables controlled, pseudonymous exchange of sensitive transaction data between banks. Acting as a neutral data trustee, EuroDaT never accesses personal content while automating secure, auditable workflows that replace error-prone phone calls. Pilots with German banks show faster, more accurate suspicion assessments and lower false positives.

🛡️ Data brokers compile extensive personal dossiers and sell them without consent. This guide explains the challenges of locating and removing your information, outlines typical data collected, and describes practical steps to submit opt-out or deletion requests. It recommends tracking requests in a spreadsheet, citing laws like CCPA or GDPR, and repeating removals every 3–6 months or using paid services.

📄 Amazon Web Services' Bedrock Data Automation now supports five additional document languages — Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, and German — expanding multilingual document processing beyond English. Customers can build blueprints, prompts, and instructions in these languages using BDA Custom Output, while BDA Standard Output will produce summaries and figure captions in the detected document language. This update is generally available across multiple AWS commercial and GovCloud regions and aims to accelerate multilingual document workflows for intelligent document processing and multimodal automation.

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment for 2024–25, achieving Standards Exceeded. The certification is valid until June 30, 2026 and is available via NHS England and AWS Artifact. NHS DSPT measures performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards, covering Personal Confidential Data, Continuity Planning, and IT Protection. AWS emphasises that security is a shared responsibility and directs customers to its compliance resources.

📄 A Thai hospital was fined after more than 1,000 patient records, sent for destruction, were found being used as street-food wrappers for crispy crepes. Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) determined the documents leaked following handling by a contracted disposal firm that stored them at a private residence. The hospital was fined 1.21 million baht and the disposal business owner received a separate penalty. The episode highlights failures in secure disposal and vendor oversight.

🔒 In this episode of Unlocked 403, host Becks and ESET Global Security Advisor Jake Moore examine how everyday online activity becomes a marketable commodity. They explain how social media, apps and websites harvest, analyze and monetize both first- and third-party data, and why metadata often reveals more than expected. The conversation highlights risks for children and the long-term consequences of pervasive collection. Jake shares practical tips for tightening app privacy settings, limiting permissions and embracing data minimization to better protect personal information.