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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This fragmentation has, unsurprisingly, lead to a heavy administrative burden for the secondary users of social and health care data by parallel and slow licence procedures with various authorities. The decisions on licenses are subject to an appeal.

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CNIL Unveils 2017 Inspection Program and 2016 Annual Activity Report

Hunton Privacy

This legislation strengthens the transparency requirements and increases the maximum level of fines from €150,000 to €3 million for data protection infringements. health and social sector issues such as difficulties accessing medical or social records, and the creation of pharmaceutical records without consent (3 percent of complaints).

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

Data breaches. Toronto residents’ CERB payments on hold after fraudulent employment insurance claims (700) Kentucky’s unemployment system suffers another breach (unknown) Defence supplier PULAU Corporation says it has been hacked (unknown) American Payroll Association notifying those affected by cyber attack (unknown). In other news….

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CIPL and AvePoint Release Global GDPR Readiness Report

Hunton Privacy

The impetuses for the survey were the many significant changes the GDPR will bring to companies’ management and processing of personal data, their privacy compliance programs and their IT systems and infrastructure. The GDPR replaces Directive 95/46/EC and will become applicable in May 2018.

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Business of Data – issue 6

Information Matters

Banks’ business model and their experience give them a comparative advantage over other businesses to become our personal data guardians.Maybe the best-suited institutions to manage digital data are banks. In a sense, banks are already data guardians. And if you’re unhappy with one bank, you can always switch to another.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores. million) fine with the US Federal Trade Commission after it was accused of illegally collecting minors’ personal data. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2