IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Broome Co.,

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Data Protection Report

JULY 16, 2020

In summary proceedings, the Federal Supreme Court overturned an earlier order of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf that – pending the outcome of an appeal by Facebook – had suspended the effect of a prohibition order issued by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) in 2019 restricting Facebook’s collection of data.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Lawyers are the real winners in the Yahoo data breach compensation case. million (about £91 million at the time) in compensation to users whose personal data was leaked. You can see more incidents from March in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. The company, now owned by Verizon, agreed to pay $117.5

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Data Protection Report

MAY 16, 2019

On 15 April 2019, the ICO opened a public consultation on a draft code of practice titled Age Appropriate Design (the “Code” ). The Code will remain open for public consultation until 31 May 2019. 10-12: transition years. 0 – 5: pre-literate and early literacy. 6 – 9: core primary school years. 13-15: early teens.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Svalbard The potential sale of HIBP was a very painful, very expensive chapter of life, announced in a blog post from June 2019. You could call it. Collection #1. aw man, thanks The Register!

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. We welcome the Government’s proposal for an offence of knowingly or recklessly re-identifying de-identified personal data without the data controller’s consent.

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