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Visualization of the Week: Mapping Mexico’s drug war

This week’s visualization comes from Diego Valle-Jones, who has created a powerful interactive map of the drug-related homicides in Mexico since 2004.

XDI : Best Practice for Healthcare Federation

2/2/12
XDI technology promises to solve several critical data federation challenges–security, inter-operability, and portability. By adopting XDI, cloud service providers could enable information to be made available more seamlessly to the people who need it, while allowing individuals to maintain a high level of control concerning access to the data. Neil McEvoy, an identity […]

UK and U.S. Regulators Introduce New Breach Guidance, Notification Forms

In recent weeks, regulators in California and Illinois have issued guidance on responding to data security breaches, while UK and California authorities released online forms for organizations to use when providing notification of a breach to regulators.

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Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Issues New Data Protection Regulations

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued new regulations regarding the protection of personal information by Internet information service providers. The regulations are set to take effect March 15, 2012.

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