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Alberta OIPC’s 2022 PIPA Breach Report – Trends and Key Takeaways

Data Protection Report

Early Notification : Since 2012 – 2013, at least 80% of organizations had already notified affected individuals at the time the breach was reported to the Commissioner. The following chart summarizes and draws percentages from statistics on decision points and decisions where the OIPC found the RROSH threshold was met. Transmission Error (ie.

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Data Protection Act 1998 does not exclude the imposition of vicarious liability for statutory or common law wrongs. In November 2013, an aggrieved Morrisons employee, Andrew Skelton, downloaded payroll data he was entrusted with at work onto a personal USB stick. Background.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9 Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. November.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The new right to be forgotten will allow children to enjoy their childhood without having every personal event, achievement, failure, antic or prank that they posted online to be digitally recorded for ever more. Of course, as new rights like this are created, the Bill will ensure that they cannot be taken too far.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Let's just recap on the value proposition of this service for a moment: for as little as 76c a day, you could subscribe to LeakedSource and view the raw data from a breach. When I started HIBP back in late 2013, I never envisaged any of what you've read above.