DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

Data Subject Access Requests – no unqualified right to documents. Due to the dates on which the DSARs had been made, the relevant legislation was in fact the Data Protection Act 1998 ( “DPA 98” ). The Defendant instigated possession proceedings which the Claimant unsuccessfully opposed.

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Access GDPR Personal data Retail 122

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. Review your accounts for suspicious activity.

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Passwords Security Retail Personal data 69

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 16, 2019

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has adopted the narrowest possible interpretation of ‘contractual necessity’ as a ground for processing of personal data.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Carrefour France and Carrefour Banque are both affiliates of the French retail group, the Carrefour Group. Between June 8, 2018 and April 6, 2019, the CNIL received 15 complaints from individuals relating to the exercise of their data protection rights with affiliates of the Carrefour Group. Background.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Assuming the plaintiff does so, she might face retroactivity hurdles, given the data breach allegedly “occurred from September 16, 2019 to November 11, 2019,” and the CCPA is not expressly retroactive. On February 3, 2020, a class action lawsuit was filed that expressly references the CCPA— Barnes v. Hanna Andersson, LLC, et al.,

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

On 28 July 2020, the French Supervisory Authority (the “CNIL”) sanctioned the online shoes retail company, SPARTOO SAS, by a €250,000 fine and an injunction to comply with GDPR within 3 months under penalty for various non-compliances with the GDPR of the personal data processing related to clients, prospects and employees [1].

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Information Matters

JANUARY 26, 2019

Which Countries Are Leading the Data Economy? 24 January 2019 “Which countries are the top data producers? HOW TIM COOK’S DATA BROKER REGISTRY MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK – Wired. 23 January 2019 “You might have bought a product from an online retailer—something most of us have done. ” [link].

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

On 31 January 2019, the French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (CNIL) and the French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF, authority in charge of consumer protection) signed a new protocol of cooperation to improve protection of personal data of consumers.

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IT Governance

JUNE 11, 2019

The breach occurred between 23 April and 4 May 2019, potentially affecting anyone who has made a purchase through shop.lcfc.com. Upon discovery of the breach, the security of our retail platform was immediately restored and appropriate measures were taken to ensure the security of all other online assets,” the statement read.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 12, 2019

On 29 July 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its judgement on Case C-40/17 (the “Fashion-ID” case). The Case: Fashion ID GmbH & Co.KG (Fashion ID), a German online clothing retailer, embedded Facebook’s “Like” button plugin on its website.

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Personal data Data collection Retail Access 40

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. billion in revenue for 2019. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

xkcd forum taken offline after personal data leak (562,000). New Zealand Transport Authority admits to tech error that exposed sensitive data (unknown). Boy Scouts’ personal data breached by third party (unknown). Netanyahu’s party exposed personal details, political affiliations of Israeli voters (4,000,000).

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IT Governance

APRIL 23, 2019

Likewise, the data protection watchdog began communications with the London Borough of Newham in April 2018 after complaints that it had breached the personal data of more than 200 people. On 4 April 2019, the ICO issued a fine of £145,000. A far more likely candidate is Dixons Carphone.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 21, 2019

At the beginning of February, the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (DPA) participated in the Safer Internet Day (SID) 2019 and searched 40 websites of large companies based in Bavaria. Fine imposed on Google by French Data Protection Authority (CNIL). …and indicates actions companies may take now.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 16, 2020

Last week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“ DPC ”) published its much anticipated guidance note on cookies and similar tracking technologies (the “ Guidance ”). It also published a report following a “cookie sweep” that took place between August 2019 and December 2019 of 38 data controllers (the “ Report ”).

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

Don’t be fooled by the fact that we only recorded 20,995,371 breached records in March; it was one of the leakiest months we’ve ever seen, with 151 recorded incidents. By comparison, there was a seemingly Lilliputian 82 recorded breaches in January and 118 in February.

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Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The attackers seek to steal documents that contain commercial secrets and employee personal data. The group was first mentioned in Group-IB’s annual report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020.”. Group-IB’s new research contains the first ever description of RedCurl’s tactics, tools, and infrastructure.

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CGI

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From channel to customer: How an omni-channel experience is the key to the retail industry’s success. Is the hype around the retail store being dead simply that, hype? Retailers are making a decided shift in focus from channel to customer , led by the growing demand for seamless and personalised customer experiences.

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Retail Customer Experience Consumer Services Personal data 81

CGI

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From channel to customer: How an omni-channel experience is the key to the retail industry’s success. Is the hype around the retail store being dead simply that, hype? Retailers are making a decided shift in focus from channel to customer , led by the growing demand for seamless and personalized customer experiences.

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IT Governance

MAY 1, 2019

Still, April 2019 saw a not completely disastrous 1,334,488,724 breached records. Criminal accesses personal data of faculty staff and students at Georgia Tech (1.3 Phishing scam exposes personal data at Florida’s Clearway Pain Solutions Institute (35,000). billion and reducing the monthly average to 1.46

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Data breaches Personal data Ransomware Phishing 111

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Data breached: 2 PB. Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Data breached: 750 million victims’ personal data.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 122

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000). Canada’s Alberta Health Services says patients’ health data was compromised in email hack (7,000). European Central Bank says one its websites was hacked (481).

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Data breaches Phishing Ransomware Personal data 111

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2020

The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. Singapore-based retailer Love, Bonito apologises to customers after malware infection (unknown).

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 116

IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Russian mobile phone operator Beeline implicated in data breach (8.7 Canadian woman receives someone else’s medical data from Interior Health (1). Alberta Health Services says hard drive containing personal data has been missing since August (650). Mail provider Click2Mail alerting customers to data breach (unknown).

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Retail 92

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25th last year, data protection has become a very hot topic. On May 22, 2019, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done.

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GDPR Compliance Risk Personal data 97

Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 2, 2019

On July 29, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) released its judgment in case C-40/17, Fashion ID GmbH & Co. Fashion ID is a German online clothing retailer that embedded the Facebook ‘Like’ button on its website. KG vs. Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV. Background. View here the press release of the CJEU.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. The personal data collected by the criminal botnets is the source of baseline intelligence that ideologues and propagandists continue to use to target and refine their disinformation campaigns, which they typically disperse by social media.

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Ransomware Government Retail Security 153

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 11, 2019

On October 10, 2019, with just weeks to go until the law goes into effect, the California Attorney General released the long-awaited draft regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Written comments will be accepted by the Attorney General until 5 PM (Pacific time) on December 6, 2019.

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Sales Retail Privacy Access 40

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The claim related to a single email with attachments sent by the Defendant law firm on 17 July 2019. It was common ground that damages can, in principle, be recovered and other remedies obtained for breaches of data protection law and common law privacy torts, including simply for the distress caused, without specific pecuniary loss 3.

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Retail Data breaches Personal data Privacy 91

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

million) Wyoming Department of Health leaking data online (164,021) Maine government website displayed mental health patients’ confidential information (unknown) Israel: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street (unknown) Contact tracing data breach exposes health information of Pennsylvanians (72,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

Reltio

APRIL 25, 2019

Blake Morgan , Customer Experience Futurist, makes her point in the Forbes article Five Trends Shaping the Future of Customer Experience In 2019. If the digital transformation doesn’t have an end date, then is your data platform able to scale infinitely to support your long-term, evolving customer experience? For Future.

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Customer Experience Digital transformation B2B B2C 75

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Rapid 7 estimates that there are upwards of 1.5

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2018

With the midterm election out of the way, legislators on Capitol Hill and in state capitols are getting ready to consider the future of data privacy regulation in 2019 and consumer and industry groups continue to weigh in on the ongoing debate. Meanwhile, a parade of proposals from industry groups and civil society continues.

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