Data Breach Today

MARCH 8, 2023

GDPR could lead to more surveillance. Civil Society and Tech Firms Warn Aginst Modifying the European Privacy Law The British government is proposing modifications to the European privacy law adopted as British law before leaving European Union. Civil society groups warn changes to the U.K.

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Data Protector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Early train from Euston, just a croissant and two teas Didn't get to eat last night Who today will I see pleading on their knees Liz, I had a dreadful fright I've breached the GDPR You don't know how lucky you are, boys Breaching the GDPR Been away so long I barely know the place BC, it's good to be back home Don't make me pack my case Honey disconnect (..)

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Data Breach Today

MAY 25, 2021

Three years later, legal and privacy experts say that while the global privacy discussion and expectations have evolved, GDPR still has some growing up to do. That was the day when the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Even the world’s biggest businesses are not free from GDPR woes. Many businesses find it hard to implement GDPR requirements because the law is not only complex but also leaves a lot up to discretion.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 12, 2020

Sweden's Privacy Watchdog Hits Company With $8 Million Penalty Google will appeal the latest GDPR fine levied against the company. The Swedish Data Protection Authority fined the company nearly $8 million for failure to remove search results related to "right-to-be-forgotten" requests.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are what we are We don't want praise, we don't want pity We bang our own drum Some think it's noise, we think it's pretty We promise that your human rights we will not mangle We're the ones that try to see things from a different angle Join us we’re going far Join us and shout out Revise the GDPR We are what we are And what we are needs no excuses (..)

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nationally driven enforcement of the regulation has emerged as a sore point for some during the GDPR's first half decade.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2019

Analysts: GDPR Case in Portugal Offers Lessons for U.S. Healthcare Entities An EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement action against a hospital in Portugal demonstrates complying with GDPR may be even tougher than complying with HIPAA. Regulatory experts analyze the implications of the case.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Ireland's Data Protection Commission Tuesday hit social media giant Twitter with a $547,000 fine for failing to report and document a data breach within 72 hours, as required under GDPR.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post New EU FIDA Proposal: How Does This Affect GDPR? FIDA will create a legislative framework that aims to "bring payments and the wider financial sector into the digital age" by facilitating the sharing of and access to customer financial data (whether of businesses or consumers). appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2020

The fine is the biggest yet for a GDPR privacy policy violation. Largest Penalty Levied So Far Under EU's Privacy Regulation France's top court has upheld a $56 million fine against Google for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its advertising personalization model that lacked adequate user consent measures.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 22, 2020

The fine is the biggest yet for a GDPR privacy policy violation. Largest Penalty Levied So Far Under EU's Privacy Regulation France's top court has upheld a $56 million fine against Google for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its advertising personalization model that lacked adequate user consent measures.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 2, 2021

Dutch Authorities Found Company Waited Over 20 Days to Issue Breach Notification The 475,000 euro fine levied against Booking.com by Dutch privacy authorities should serve as a "wake-up call" for other companies when it comes to GDPR, some experts say.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the significance of fines against British Airways and Marriott for violations of the EU's GDPR. Also featured are discussions of California's privacy law as a model for other states and the next generation of deception technologies.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 24, 2019

Cisco is out with findings from its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which shows the impact of GDPR compliance as well as how customers are asking more questions about how their data is secured. Cisco Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy analyzes the survey.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 19, 2021

A Substantial Settlement Could Build Data Security Momentum British Airways could face a substantial compensation payout as a result of an ongoing group lawsuit over its 2018 data breach, the first of its kind under GDPR.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The instant messaging company violated the actual General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a conclusion to a GDPR investigation it conducted into WhatsApp Ireland Ltd. The Irish agency is also asking the company to bring the data sharing in compliance with the GDPR.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 22, 2019

Brian Honan of BH Consulting on When to Notify - or Not Since the EU's new GDPR privacy law came into effect in May 2018, one challenge for organizations that suffer a breach is knowing whether or not they must report it to authorities, says Brian Honan, president and CEO of BH Consulting in Dublin.

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IT Governance

MAY 25, 2023

billion fine for Meta – by far the biggest fine issued under the GDPR since it took effect five years ago – has been taken by many as a sign that the Regulation is at last beginning to be enforced with sufficient vigour. The GDPR was intended to address that – and at first, it seemed like it would. Monday’s €1.2

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite (C‑340/21), in which it clarified, among other things, the concept of non-material damage under Article 82 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the rules governing burden of proof under the GDPR.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Heads to the House of Lords British Conservative lawmakers are pushing ahead with legislation modifying the U.K. codification of European privacy law despite objections from privacy advocates and concerns about the legislation's impact on European trade.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 3, 2018

With GDPR in full effect since May, organizations with data security practices face the potential of massive fines. Legal Experts Suspect So, But Investigation Could Take a Year or More Will Marriott be the first organization that lost control of Europeans' personal data to feel the full force of the EU's General Protection Regulation?

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 8, 2023

In the decision, the CJEU clarified that a mere infringement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is not sufficient to give data subjects the right to receive compensation under Article 82 of the GDPR.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Repeat Shakedown Tactic: Victims Told to Pay Up or Else They'll Pay Massive Fines Ransomware groups do whatever they can to pressure a victim into paying.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 16, 2019

Privacy regulators have also imposed at least $63 million in GDPR fines. $63 Million in Fines Imposed Since Privacy Law Went Into Full Effect European privacy authorities have received nearly 65,000 data breach notifications since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect in May 2018.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Billion Euros in Total Known Fines Since Data Protection Law Took Effect Ireland - home to the European headquarters of a throng of multinational tech companies - is responsible for the greatest amount of aggregate data protection fines - 2.9 billion euros - since the European Union General Data Protection Regulation went into effect.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 29, 2019

After Privacy Law Went Into Full Effect, Data Security Complaints Doubled One year after Europe's tough new GDPR privacy law went into full effect last May, authorities in Britain have seen the number of annual data breach notifications more than quadruple. Meanwhile, the number of data protection complaints filed by Europeans has doubled.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Privacy Law is Fast Revealing the True Extent of Data Breaches Across UK and EU Less than four months after GDPR went into enforcement, Europe has arguably entered the modern data breach era.

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IT Governance

MARCH 30, 2023

Article 17 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) plays a distinctive yet essential role in data protection law. Failure to fulfil this requirement is considered a serious breach and could be penalised under the GDPR’s upper tier of fines of €20 million (£17.5 Learn more The post GDPR Article 17: What Is the Right to Erasure?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The regulations from GDPR, PIPL, and CCPA are especially prevalent to MSPs and software vendors because they get access to data from so many organizations, but all businesses need to comply with them. PIPL Compliance CCPA Compliance GDPR Compliance How to Stay Up to Date with Changing Compliance Regulations. GDPR Compliance.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Netherlands, Germany and UK Have Logged the Most Data Breach Reports Since the EU's GDPR went into full effect, European data protection authorities have received over 59,000 data breach reports, with the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. receiving the greatest number of notifications, according to the law firm DLA Piper.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Total GDPR fines are over €2 billion (EUR) since 2018. Facebook—Meta—was just fined $276 million (USD) for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location. Meta’s total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over $700 million.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 25, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of why Google was one of the first companies to be hit with a major GDPR fine, plus a global update on GDPR compliance trends and an in-depth report on shifts in malware.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The op-ed discusses several potential implications of the Draft GDPR Procedural Regulation and Draft LIBE Report, including with respect to the “right to be heard,” information sharing, and the GDPR’s one-stop-shop mechanism.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 22, 2024

The post European Commission Opens Feedback Period on GDPR first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the EU Commission page here.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

More than 160,000 Data Breaches Reported to EU Regulators, DLA Piper Finds Since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect in May 2018, European data protection authorities have received more than 160,900 data breach reports and imposed $126 million in fines under GDPR for a wide variety of infringements, not all involving data (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR. The German agency states that the use of Zoom by the public body violated the EU GDPR. The DPA is going to issue a formal warning, under Article 58 (2) (a) of the GDPR.

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