The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) changed the game. Legacy filing systems were not built to keep track of the personal data of specific individuals primarily to be in compliance with the many data protection regulations popping up around the world.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

SHIFT Counsellors at Law reports from Indonesia that The People’s Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia has ratified Indonesia’s draft law on personal data protection. The law, which is partly modeled on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, is Indonesia’s first “umbrella regulation” on personal data protection.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 6, 2021

Letter to Twitter, Google, Others Asks About Selling Information to Foreign Governments A bipartisan group of senators has sent a letter to Google, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T and online advertising firms and networks raising national security concerns about the selling of citizens' personal data, which could end up in the hands of foreign governments.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

On 18 July 2023, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“ PDPC ”) issued for public consultation a set of proposed guidelines for the use of personal data in AI recommendation and decision systems (“ Proposed Guidelines ”). The public consultation is open until 31 August 2023.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The declining cost of electronic data storage may have caused some company executives to conclude that retaining personal data forever is “cheap.” The matter involved one of France’s largest insurers, SGAM AG2R LA MONDIALE, which was subject to an inspection by the French data protection authority (the CNIL), in 2019.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Indonesia’s long-awaited Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”) finally came into force on 17 October 2022, helpfully consolidating and clarifying the personal data protection framework in Indonesia. Data Protection Officer (DPO). Overseas Data Transfers. The law is primarily consent-based.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 5, 2023

The alleged GDPR infringements: The Garante apparently took its action after becoming aware of a recent data breach at ChatGPT, where users’ chat titles and payment information was exposed.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The post Seiko watches 60K personal data records tick away in BlackCat ransomware heist via TheRegister first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 20, 2022

On January 12, 2022, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published guidelines on the re-use of personal data by data processors for their own purposes (such as product improvement or the development of new products and services) under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the “Guidelines”).

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 28, 2023

In a recent decision (the Decision ), [1] the Personal Data Protection Commission ( PDPC ) considered for the first time a company’s reliance on the Legitimate Interests Exception (as defined below) under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ( PDPA ) when the consent procured is invalid.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 18, 2023

Palazzi from Allende & Brea in Argentina reports that on June 30, 2023, the Argentine Executive Branch sent the new proposed Personal Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) to the National Congress for consideration. 25,326 of 2000).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

On 3 August, the Indian Central Government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 ( PDP Bill ). The PDP Bill, which has drawn criticism from both privacy advocates and industry stakeholders, was first published in 2018 and was to be India’s first law on the protection of personal data.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In high court case that could set precedent for millions, Tanya O’Carroll alleges owner Meta is breaking UK data laws A human rights campaigner is suing Facebook’s owner in the high court, claiming the company is disregarding her right to object against the collection of her personal data.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

teeters on the edge of a "no deal" Brexit, the country's information commissioner has warned businesses to prepare, saying that any organization that handles Europeans' personal data must ensure they have a legal transfer arrangement in place for continuing to do so.

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IG Guru

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The post Hackers Are Selling Hacked Police Emails to Try to Grab Personal Data From TikTok, Facebook via 404 first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

An SQL database containing the personal data of 1.3 Researchers from Cyber News have discovered that the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data leaks. The post Personal data of 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

Global flows of personal data have been a source of geopolitical concern for many years now. To date, these compliance challenges were essentially limited to personal data processing, so some organisations and sectors had to do more than others.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 9, 2023, India’s upper house ( i.e. , Rajya Sabha) passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (“DPDPB”), two days after India’s lower house ( i.e. , Lok Sabha) passed the legislation. The DPDPB now heads to India President Droupadi Murmu for signature.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 29, 2023

The UK and the US Build a ‘Data Bridge’ to Facilitate Personal Data Movements andrew.gertz@t… Tue, 08/29/2023 - 13:41 Modern-day business transactions heavily rely on international data transfers. The new “data bridge” would extend the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 13, 2020

Researchers disclosed flaws in Amazon Alexa that could allow attackers to access personal data and install skills on Echo devices.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. However, most of the operational provisions, including provisions relating to the rights of a data subject, the obligations of a data controller and the penalties for non-compliance, will become effective on 27 May 2020, 1 year after the PDPA is published. Definition of Personal Data.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The ban would apply across the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Ahead of the publication of the EDPB binding decision, Meta announced the rolling out in the EEA of a subscription model for an ad-free access to its Facebook and Instagram services.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 23, 2023

Vietnam’s long-awaited, first-ever Personal Data Protection Decree (“ PDPD ”) has finally been passed and is scheduled to take effect from 1 July 2023 (save limited grace period exceptions). The most notable provisions of the PDPD relate to the compliance requirements in general processing and cross-border transfers of personal data.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Singapore Court of Appeal has recently clarified that ‘emotional distress’ is an actionable loss and damage under the existing right of private action of Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“ PDPA “). For example, the Court observed that loss of control of personal data would not constitute loss or damage under the PDPA.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2023

A Dutch hacker who was arrested at the end of last year claims to have stolen the personal data of almost all Austrians. At the end of November 2022, the Amsterdam police arrested a 25-year-old man from Almere who is suspected of having stolen or traded the personal data of tens of millions of people around the world.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Firm to appeal decision by Berlin regional court which upholds complaints that users not given informed consent Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data are against German consumer law, according to a judgement handed down by a Berlin regional court.

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Data Matters

JULY 24, 2023

On July 18, 2023, Singapore’s data protection authority published proposed guidelines on the use of personal data in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The post Singapore PDPC Consultation on New Guidance for Use of Personal Data in AI Systems appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 1, 2022

Meanwhile, a sometimes popular (mis)conception is that data protection laws – and particularly the GDPR – are a barrier to the effective use of personal data for research. The implication was that data controllers did not fully understand, and therefore were not effectively making use of, the research provisions.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Outbreak of the coronavirus and personal data privacy. There have been several data breach incidents which have given rise to concerns over privacy and potential discrimination against people from Wuhan and Hubei Province. Highlights of the CAC Circular.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2021

TikTok is again being accused of illegally processing children’s personal data. She alleges that TikTok is violating the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) by collecting excessive data and failing to explain what it’s used for. TikTok has continually defended the way it processes children’s personal data.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2021

Information Stolen From European Medicines Agency Documents on COVID-19 vaccines and medications - including some containing personal information - that were stolen in a cyberattack last month on the European Medicines Agency have been leaked on the internet.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 5, 2021

On August 2, 2021, the Italian Data Protection Authority ( Garante per la protezione dei dati personali , “Garante”) announced that it had levied a €2,500,000 fine on Deliveroo Italy s.r.l.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On 29 January 2021, the Personal Data Protection Commission ( PDPC ) announced that certain sections of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020 (the PDPA Amendments ) will take effect from 1 February 2021 – please see PDPC’s announcement here ; the gazetted Commencement Notification here.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 7, 2020

On July 13, 2020, a Committee of Experts within India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“the Committee”) published the first draft of a Non-Personal Data Governance Framework for India for public consultation. address privacy concerns, including from re-identification of anonymized personal data.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. In this blog, we take a look at the scenarios in which data protection breaches in schools must be reported. When must breaches be reported?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How to Address the Requirements of Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law of Indonesia divya Thu, 02/02/2023 - 06:35 In response to the increased number of attacks targeting the personal data of millions of Indonesian citizens, the government passed the first Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law in 2022.

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