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Back to School Privacy Guide Privacy Guidance as Schools Reopen The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), which informs educators on student privacy, has a new guide to help navigate U.S. privacy laws, FERPA, IDEA, and HIPAA, pertaining to disabilities.

IBM’s Cost of Data Breach report, which was conducted in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, warns that data breach costs have increased by 10% in recent years while the speed of discovering breaches has decreased. On average, they say based on interviews with 3,200 individuals involved in data breaches, it takes 280 days to mend a breach. Not only does this mean lost revenue, but also a loss of customer trust and damage to a company’s reputation.

How does working from home during COVID-19 impact data privacy? Cillian Kieran, CEO of Ethyca, the data privacy company which last month received $13.5m Series A funding, said in this interview on France 24: It’s been a huge transition and companies are “using a lot of new tools that accumulate personal information. Systems must be protected appropriately, and data must be retrievable and erasable and auditable.”

Enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) began July 1. A new addendum to strengthen it goes to a vote in November.

BigID has launched an app marketplace of apps by BigID and 3rd parties that expand privacy and security capabilities, including for governance, dark web breach monitoring and risk and retention management.

The UK faces potential data flow issues following the end of the Privacy Shield agreement between the EU and US. A no-Brexit deal could require more scrutiny.