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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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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. Video-sharing app TikTok agreed to a record $5.7 million) fine with the US Federal Trade Commission after it was accused of illegally collecting minors’ personal data. million (£4.2

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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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Data apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. Data breached: 21,100,000 records. Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in January 2020 – 1.5 billion records breached

IT Governance

Data leak exposes the owners of thousands of anonymous offshore companies (unknown). Fresh Film Productions leaks personal data of Dove ‘real people’ ad participants (1,500). Consultancy firms leak data on workers (+2,000). UK betting firms given vast access to children’s personal data (28 million).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2020 – 18.4 million records breached

IT Governance

million) Personal data from eatigo accounts accessed in a security incident (2.8 million) Vulnerability in social networking app True leaks users’ data (500,000) Boxes of records belonging to DaVita Florissant Dialysis found in street (unknown) Home Depot has exposed the private order confirmations of Canadian consumers (660).