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SolarWinds hackers breach US nuclear weapons agency
December 18, 2020
Hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Energy Department and...
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Irish Data Protection Commission to announce Twitter fine on December 17th
December 14, 2020
Commissioner Helen Dixon will have an active week with her office’s first potential big tech fine under GDPR and a...
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EU Commission proposes new Data Governance Act
November 30, 2020
Commission proposes measures to boost data sharing and support European data spaces To better exploit the potential of ever-growing data...
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EU consumers will soon be able to defend their rights collectively
November 30, 2020
EU Parliament today endorsed a new law that will allow groups of consumers to join forces and launch collective action...
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Open Rights Group is taking the ICO to court over the regulator’s failure to stop unlawful practices by the AdTech industry
November 11, 2020
In an unprecedented move, the Privacy Campaigners at the Open Rights Group (ORG) have today announced that they are taking...
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Survey result: 45% of businesses faced a data breach in last 12 months
November 11, 2020
The data breach report is based on a survey conducted by Kaspersky and B2B International on September 30, 2020. Researchers...
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Cork hospital fined €65k after patients’ personal data found in public recycling facility
November 5, 2020
Cork hospital fined €65k after patients' personal data found in public recycling facility The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has handed...
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Irish DPC to cover € 2.9M of legal bill of EU-US data transfer case
November 2, 2020
DPC ordered to pick up most of the legal bill of EU-US data transfer case Today, the Irish High Court...
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ICO fines Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep customers’ personal data secure
November 2, 2020
The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates that...
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Wizz Air: €1 for a flight, €35 for your GDPR right
October 26, 2020
Despite the free right to rectification under the GDPR, the airline charged € 35 in phone charges to update a...
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UK Information Commissioner’s Office has published detailed guidance on the Right of Access.
October 21, 2020
The right of access is a fundamental right under data protection law. And it has never been more necessary. In...
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IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard
October 20, 2020
IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard A flagship framework for gathering Internet users’ consent for...
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Instagram is under investigation over handling of children’s data
October 19, 2020
Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform....
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EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
October 16, 2020
A pan-European alliance for cloud technology will be set up by the end of the year to for purpose of...
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ICO fines British Airways £20m for data breach affecting more than 400,000 customers
October 16, 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details...
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Google Analytics Gets A Major Privacy And Machine Learning-Focused Overhaul
October 16, 2020
Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left....
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Irish Data Protection Commission to receive €2 million extra funding
October 15, 2020
Irish Data Protection Commission has had a ten-fold increase in funding since 2014 Irish Data Protection Commission is getting more...
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Morgan Stanley Fined $60 Million for Data Protection Mishaps
October 14, 2020
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has fined Morgan Stanley $60 million for the investment bank's failure to properly oversee...
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German lawsuit accuses Amazon of breaking EU privacy law
October 12, 2020
The lawsuit takes issue with Amazon’s transatlantic data transfers Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued...
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Amazon’s spying on EU workers just tip of iceberg
October 8, 2020
Amazon has been caught snooping on the private Facebook groups of its EU-based delivery workers The revelations have been accumulating...
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Global Privacy Control initiative is to help consumers exercise their privacy rights
October 8, 2020
Announcing Global Privacy Control: Making it Possible for Consumers to Easily Exercise Their "Do Not Sell" Rights Under CCPA With...
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H&M gets 35.3M euros fine for records of private living conditions of employees
October 2, 2020
Due to several hundred employees of the H&M service centre in Nuremberg were monitored by the centre management, the Hamburg...
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New Swiss Data Protection Act completed: comparison with GDPR
September 28, 2020
The new Swiss Data Protection Act 2020 (DPA) has finally been completed. Following the resolution of the last differences on...
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Instagram Sued For Privacy Violations Over Unauthorized Camera Access
September 22, 2020
On Thursday in the Northern District of California, Brittany Conditi filed a class-action complaint against Instagram and its parent company Facebook for...
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Facebook mounts legal challenge amid fall-out over data transfer order
September 18, 2020
Facebook has initiated legal proceedings against Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner in the High Court. The move comes just days after...
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Cloud Industry Unites to Create Global Standard for Transfer of Personal Data following ‘Schrems II’ ruling
September 17, 2020
The creators of the data protection market standard for cloud, the EU Cloud Code of Conduct (CoC), today announced work...
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UK government DPOs challenged by volume of GDPR work
September 11, 2020
Data protection officers (DPOs) working in central government departments, agencies and associated public bodies across the UK say they have...
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Irish regulator forces Facebook to stop sending EU data to the US
September 10, 2020
The Irish regulator is expected to stop the social media giant from moving data to the US because of privacy...
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German State’s Data Processing Authority Offers Strict Guidance On Post-Schrems II Data Transfers
August 31, 2020
The data protection authority of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg issued a guidance for European Union data exporters in the wake of the Schrems...
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Italy tops GDPR penalty list with €46m worth of fines in 2020
August 26, 2020
Businesses operating within the European Union have been hit with a total of €68 million (£61.5m) in fines relating to...
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