Tag: GDPR
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Twitter Fined Half a Million Dollars for Privacy Violation
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
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.
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ICO Demands Urgent Data Protection Changes from UK Parties
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The 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.
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BA fine £20m… post from Ian Warren
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Thank 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 […]
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ICO lowers Marriott data breach fine to £18.4 million
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The regulator had proposed to impose a £99 million fine on the hotel chain last year. Read via Computing.co.uk
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ICO Hits British Airways With Record-Breaking GDPR Fine For 2018 Data Breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The 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.
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EU admits it has been hard to implement GDPR
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Official 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
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Coronavirus: researchers no longer need consent to access your medical records
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
You 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.
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ICO: Data protection and coronavirus – what you need to know
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The ICO recognises the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read the full post from the ICO here.
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Home Office committed multiple data breaches when handling the EU settlement scheme
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The 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.
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On data protection, the UK says it will go it alone. It probably won’t.
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The 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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