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Ireland: DPC Annual Report 2020: Enforcement & Transfers Dominate Agenda

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Breach notifications to the DPC increased by 10% in 2020, reaching a total of 6,628 valid notifications. 90% of the recorded breach cases were concluded in 2020. In contrast, only 70 valid data breach notifications were received under the ePrivacy Regulations and 25 notifications under the Law Enforcement Directive.

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Assessing the Impact of the Barbados’ Proposed Data Protection Bill on the Barbadian Private Sector

Data Matters

We provide a brief overview of BDPA’s principles relating to the processing of personal data, requirements with respect to data subject rights, international transfers, and compliance. Companies in the financial services, technology, airline and hotel industries are among those that could face substantial compliance obligations.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. In your grandfather’s data breach—e.g., All rights reserved.