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Breach Roundup: Swedish Insurer Fined $3M for GDPR Breach

Data Breach Today

Also, Google Fitbit Faces Privacy Complaints From Schrems This week, the Swedish DPA fined an insurer $3 million for violating GDPR, a DDoS attack disrupted a German financial agency website, Google Fitbit faced privacy complaints from Schrems, Ragnar Locker published hacked hospital data, and Seville, Spain dealt with the aftermath of a ransomware (..)

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Maintaining GDPR and Data Privacy Compliance in 2024

IT Governance

He’s also an award-winning author, and has been involved in developing a wide range of information security and data privacy training courses, has consulted for clients across the globe, and is a regular media commentator and speaker. About that “GDPR-like legislation”, could you please elaborate?

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CJEU Rules on Processing of Sensitive Data and Compensation Under the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

Background The case related to the processing of an incapacitated employee’s personal data, including health data, by the medical service provider (“MDK”) of a health insurance fund in Germany. The CJEU also held that the rules and limitations on the processing of sensitive personal data under Article 9.2(h)

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Spotify Fined 5 Million Euros for GDPR Violations

Data Breach Today

Online Music Streamer Will Appeal Decision From Swedish Data Protection Authority Swedish privacy regulators ordered Spotify to pay 5 million euros after finding the music streaming service not forthcoming enough with how it uses consumer data.

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Twitter Fined $547,000 Under GDPR for 2018 Data Breach

Data Breach Today

technology firm has been fined under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. Ireland's Data Protection Commission Tuesday hit social media giant Twitter with a $547,000 fine for failing to report and document a data breach within 72 hours, as required under GDPR.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2

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Liechtenstein's Data Regulator Releases AI Chatbot Guidance

Data Breach Today

Guidance Cites GDPR Transparency and Consent Clauses The data protection regulator of European country Liechtenstein rolled out new data processing guidance for large language model-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT.

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