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HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Keyfactor, a provider of secure digital identity management solutions, announced a collaboration that will improve how organizations secure data and protect privacy. Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer certificates establish an encrypted connection between a browser or user's computer and a server or website to ensure data security, privacy and authenticity.

Many online training sites are offering significantly reduced prices on training programs during the month of May. This roundup includes free courses for people who are new to cybersecurity as well as specialized courses about security for the Internet of Things and California's new privacy law. Free online courses for security basicsIf you're not ready to spend money on cybersecurity training, take a look at the SANS Cyber Aces Online Courses.

The California Consumer Privacy Act is a lesson in missed opportunities. In September 2017, Alastair Mactaggart and Mary Ross proposed a statewide ballot initiative entitled the "California Consumer Privacy Act." Ballot initiatives are a process under California law in which private citizens can propose legislation directly to voters, and pursuant to which such legislation can be enacted through voter approval without any action by the state legislature or the governor.

These days, Josh is writing about the future of data policy and ownership, which are important issues for everyone that's really involved in the development of a new app or a system, from developers to project managers and everybody in between so that's why he's here talking about some of those things that developers need to know about data collection. One thing that we really need to start looking at it differently is the separation between data ownership and data privacy and data security because a lot of times I feel when people are talking about this, it gets all balled up into one.

In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, developers are more important than ever to the data privacy and security of the software they build.

People can generally hear audio frequencies ranging from 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, though individual hearing ranges vary. Samuel Weiler, a web security engineer with MIT CSAIL and a member of the W3C's Privacy Interest Group, recently pushed to re-open a discussion about limiting the Web Audio API so that it cannot be used to generate or listen for ultrasonic signals without permission.

Self-service request portal: Automate, track, and monitor requests and preferences management. Data rights lifecycle management: Manage approvals, task delegation and deletion workflows with an admin dashboard.

The small group of policy wonks that forced California's legislature to rush through privacy legislation two years ago are back - and this time they want a ballot. The big question now is whether history repeats itself and the threat of a ballot initiative passing is sufficient for lawmakers to promise additions to the existing law in return to take the ballot off the table.

The ToIP Foundation will use digital identity models that leverage interoperable digital wallets and credentials and the new W3C Verifiable Credentials standard to address these challenges and enable consumers, businesses and governments to better manage risk, improve digital trust and protect all forms of identity online. "The ToIP Foundation has the promise to provide the digital trust layer that was missing in the original design of the Internet and to trigger a new era of human possibility," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation.

Immuta, the automated data governance company, announced native support for Snowflake, along with new privacy and security automation capabilities, that help organizations fully leverage cloud-based data analytics and data sharing - even on their most sensitive data sets. Enhancements to the Immuta platform include k-anonymization, the latest addition to Immuta's suite of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, automated decryption of cloud-based data, and a new, native integration with Snowflake that lets joint customers easily analyze and share sensitive data.