Privacy Law Facts
Most commonly used password
What is “123456”?
Unscramble this PW "D15n3y 15 tH3 haPP135t pLAC3"
What is "Disney is the happiest place"?
The unauthorized disclosure or other unauthorized access, to data, whether physical or electronic
What is a Breach?
E-mails or other communications that are designed to trick a user into believing that he or she should provide a password, account number or other information
What is Phishing?
The east coast's first major privacy state law
What is Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA)?
An extra layer of protection used to ensure the security of online accounts beyond just a username and password
What is two-step verification, multi-factor authentication or two-factor authentication?
This company was hacked by a nation state to prevent U.S. theaters from showing the movie “The Interview”
What is Sony?
The first state to grant it's citizens these privacy rights - the right to know, to delete, and to opt-out
What is California?
The world’s first digital password for a computer system was created at MIT in 1947, 1959, or 1961
What is 1961?
The term for using multiple words to ensure that you have a strong password
What is a passphrase?
Percentage of companies breached by a bad password in 2019 (35%, 42%, or 55.7%)
What is 42%?
When does the CDPA goes into effect
The decision from the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed that standard contractual clauses can continue to be used for the transfer of personal data out of the EEA, however the court imposed further due diligence obligations on entities seeking to make such transfers
What is Schrems II decision of July 2020?
When you visit a website and check a box that says, "Remember me", the website will save your login information, such as your username and password. This small text file stored on a device is called
What is a Cookie?
Global average cost of a data breach is $103,500, $2.5 million, or $3.9 million
What is $3.9 million?
The law that regulates children's online privacy
What is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?