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Organisations received £155 million in GDPR fines in 2020

IT Governance

In 2020, organisations received €182 million (about £155 million) in fines for violating the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , according to an IT Governance report. Our GDPR Fines Quarterly Report revealed that more than two thirds of that total – €110 million (£94 million) – came in the final quarter of the year.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019 ­– 39.7 million records leaked

IT Governance

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect.

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UK police forces suffered more than 2,000 data breaches in 2020

IT Governance

UK police forces experienced 2,386 data breaches in 2020, according to data gathered by VPNoverview. For example, the report revealed that police stations suffered 299 data breaches on average between January 2016 and April 2021. Who are the worst offenders?

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Google LLC loses appeal against French Data Protection Authority decision before France highest administrative Court

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Therefore, the Irish Data Protection Authority, acting as Google’s lead authority, had sole jurisdiction to monitor Google’s data processing activities on the European Union territory (1). The fine of EUR 50 million is disproportionate and does not take into account the criteria set forth in article 83-2 of the GDPR (3).

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GDPR, CCPA and beyond: Changes in data privacy laws and enforcement risks to monitor in 2019

Data Protection Report

With significant enforcement activity and new laws being enacted or proposed since the start of the year, regulators in the EU and the US, several US states, and the US Congress are showing they mean business in terms of data privacy. EU and US regulators continue to increase the stakes for data privacy enforcement.

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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Analysing Data Breaches Caused by Human Error

IT Governance

To find out, we looked at the ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) public data set , specifically looking into four data breach types caused by human error: Data emailed to incorrect recipient. Data posted or faxed to incorrect recipient. At the time of writing, the data set starts in Q2 2019 and goes up to Q2 2023.