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The Digital Markets Act Is Almost Here: 10 Things to Know About the EU’s New Rules for Big Tech

Data Matters

There is a lot to digest, so below is our breakdown of the top 10 key points you should know about the EU’s new rules. process and use personal data. Gatekeepers will only be able to rely on (GDPR-grade) user consent with respect to processing data for advertising purposes. Key dates and next steps.

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Weekly podcast: Dixons Carphone, Fashion Nexus, Yale and Alaska

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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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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