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61% of organisations reported a data breach in 2019

IT Governance

The insurance firm Hiscox found that 61% of organisations were compromised in the past 12 months. Consider that the 2019 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report identified a record-high 10.52 Once organisations understand the scale of the threat facing them, they’ll realise the importance of cyber security. Still undecided?

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CNIL Fines French Real Estate Service Provider for Data Security and Retention Failures

Hunton Privacy

On June 6, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it levied a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a French real estate service provider, for failure to (1) implement appropriate security measures and (2) define data retention periods for the personal data of unsuccessful rental candidates. Background.

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CNIL Fines Two Companies of the Carrefour Group €3.05 Million for GDPR and Cookie Violations

Hunton Privacy

million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies. GDPR and Cookie Violations. Background.

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Germany: Bonn Regional Court overrules GDPR Fining Guidelines by German Data Protection Authorities

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Background: How to calculate GDPR fines? How to properly calculate administrative fines for non-compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘ GDPR ’) is one of the most important questions when applying the GDPR on practical level, e.g. : What is actually meant by the reference to “undertaking” in Article 83 (4) to (6) GDPR?

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories.

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New CNIL €400,000 fine for data security breaches and non-compliance with data retention period under the GDPR

Data Protection Report

Following the now famous €50m fine imposed on Google LLC in January 2019, [1] the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL ) published a decision taken on 28 May 2019 [2] imposing a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a company specialised in real estate development, purchase, sale, rental and property management.

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54% of universities reported a data breach in the past year

IT Governance

A survey has found that 54% of UK universities reported a data breach to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in the past 12 months. Of the 86 universities that responded to a Freedom of Information request from security firm Redscan, the majority admitted serious shortcomings in their ability to prevent data breaches.