Tag: GDPR
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
Read MoreThe UK’s privacy watchdog has told the country’s largest political parties to make urgent improvements to their data handling practices, following concerns that many voters are unaware of how their information is being used. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
Read MoreThank you to Senior Security Consultant, Ian Warren. The final outcome of the BA data breach of 2018 has left many observers with mixed opinions. There is a perception of falling far short of expectations after £186m had been muted across the various media outputs; is this a partisan result? Protection for one of our […]
Read MoreThe regulator had proposed to impose a £99 million fine on the hotel chain last year. Read via Computing.co.uk
Read MoreThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways £20 million ($25.85 million) following a 2018 data breach affecting more than 400,000 of the airline’s customers. Read via Forbes.
Read MoreOfficial report to mark two years of data protection regulation notes burden on small and medium-sized companies. Read story by Javier Espinoza in FT.com
Read MoreYou may not know it, but if you live in the UK and have contacted the NHS with any coronavirus-related health concerns, your data is now being used for research. Read this story by Stephen Khan in The Conversation.
Read MoreThe ICO recognises the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read the full post from the ICO here.
Read MoreThe UK home office has been blamed by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and immigration for GDPR violations, stating that it misplaced personal documents of EU residents when handling the EU settlement scheme. Read here.
Read MoreThe Prime Minister listed data protection as an area that the UK could legislate on following Brexit – but diverging from European Union rules on privacy would only complicate things. Read via ZDNet.
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