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When are schools required to report personal data breaches?

IT Governance

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. In this blog, we take a look at the scenarios in which data protection breaches in schools must be reported. How to avoid data breaches.

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National AI Strategy: The UK Government Publishes Its Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Next Decade

Data Matters

On 22 September 2021, the UK Government (the “ Government ”) published its Artificial Intelligence (“ AI ”) strategy. The paper outlines the Government’s plan to make Britain a “global superpower” in the AI arena, and sets out an agenda to build the most “pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world”.

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Two FTC complaints that over-retention of personal data violates Section 5

Data Protection Report

In both cases, the FTC’s complaint alleged that the companies retained personal data for longer than was necessary, and that conduct violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act as an unfair act or practice. Under the proposed consent orders, both companies do not confirm or deny the allegations.

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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Throughout the week, NCA will emphasize the critical significance of digital privacy for both consumers and businesses through a series of educational webinars featuring experts from various industries. “Knowing how to safeguard your personal information has never been more important than it is today. Give Data Brokers the Slip!

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. GDPR and other data protection regulations help broaden our awareness about data privacy and make us more suspicious when it comes to protecting personal data and digital services.

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What are you doing for Data Privacy Week?

IT Governance

Data privacy is a concept that governs our everyday lives. We’re asked to hand over our personal data for seemingly everything that we do – from browsing the web to high-street shopping. Each device, app or browser has different features to limit and personal data will be used and who it will be shared with.

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data. Data breached: 395 GB.