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RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure

Security Affairs

The exercises aimed at testing and ensuring the integrity and the security of Russia’s Internet infrastructure, so-called RuNet. “According to Sokolov, several scenarios were worked out during the exercises. Currently, among the 12 organizations that oversee DNS base servers worldwide there isn’t an entity in Russia.

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Bodybuilding.com forces password reset after a security breach

Security Affairs

The website offers any kind of fitness articles, exercises, workouts, and supplements. The company confirmed it has no evidence that personal customer information was accessed or misused, as a precautionary measure the company is notifying all current and former users and customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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EU Data Retention Directive Invalidated

Hunton Privacy

On April 8, 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that the EU Data Retention Directive is invalid because it disproportionally interferes with the European citizens’ rights to private life and protection of personal data. The Court’s ruling applies retroactively to the day the Directive entered into force.

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Opinion on the Implementation of the CJEU Ruling in Costeja

Hunton Privacy

On November 26, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) published an Opinion (the “Opinion”) on the Guidelines on the Implementation of the Court of Justice of the European Union Judgment on “Google Spain and Google Inc. Data Subject Rights. The criteria are: Does the search result relate to a natural person?

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9 million personal data records, and a second breach, in which customers’ names, addresses and email addresses were accessed.

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Irish Commissioner Fines WhatsApp €225 Million For GDPR Violations

Hunton Privacy

On September 2, 2021, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) announced a fine of €225 million ($266 million) against WhatsApp Ireland Ltd (“WhatsApp”) for failure to meet the transparency requirements of Articles 12-14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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The right to be forgotten: the CJEU sides with Google in two landmark cases

Data Protection Report

the right to the protection of personal data, not being an absolute right, must be balanced against other fundamental rights in line with the principle of proportionality. This neatly allowed searches which return special category personal data in the results to remain viable. The Court found that it did.