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Online retailer agrees to pay $1.9M in penalties following data breach

Zoetop, owner of online fashion retailers SHEIN and ROMWE, will pay $1.9 million in penalties to the state of New York following a 2018 data breach that impacted more than 800,000 New Yorkers, state Attorney General Letitia James announced. Under the agreement, Zoetop will also strengthen cybersecurity measures, including hashing customer passwords and implementing network monitoring and incident response policies with timely investigations, consumer notice and password resets.

New research helps executives, CISOs build trust through cybersecurity and privacy

Building trust in global commerce in the digital economy is only as good as the privacy and cybersecurity a company offers, according to KPMG. The company released its latest research, “Cyber trust insights 2022,” which surveyed 1,881 executives from companies around the world to better ascertain the extent to which C-suite executives understand how much their company relies on cybersecurity and the need to uphold customers’ privacy.

Provisional measure gives Brazil's ANPD independency

The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil approved a provisional measure to give Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, special agency status and administrative autonomy. Federal Deputy Jerônimo Goergen said the measure helps strengthen Brazil's data protection regime and "make it compatible with other regulatory regimes and international experiences." Final approval by the Brazilian Senate must come before Oct.

Genesis electric SUV uses biometrics

The Hyundai Motor Company Genesis GV60 electric SUV is replacing traditional key fobs with facial recognition technology and a fingerprint reader to access and start the vehicle, Axios reports. The company says customers’ data is encrypted, stored only in the vehicle and can be deleted by drivers. The vehicle can store the biometric data of two drivers, as well as preferences like radio stations and seat position.Full Story

P.S.R. 2022: Digesting the national security, commercial implications of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

It has been one week since U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order to shore up data transfer flows between the EU and U.S. IAPP Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, moderated a discussion at the IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022 conference that explored the national security concerns and complications of the executive order as well as next steps. IAPP Staff Writer Alex LaCasse has the details.