Tag: GDPR
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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UK to diverge from EU data protection rules, Johnson confirms
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The United Kingdom will seek to diverge from EU data protection rules and establish their own ‘sovereign’ controls in the field, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (3 February). His comments came despite the EU affirming that the UK should “fully respect EU data protection rules.” Read more via Euractiv
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Think beyond tick-box compliance
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog Advent IM News General
“When it comes to compliance with the GDPR and the UK’s updated Data Protection Act (DPA), Mike Gillespie, managing director and co-founder of independent security consultancy Advent IM, says no information security professional should be driving the conversation through dialogue about potential fines. In his experience, this is both defeatist and counter-productive when dealing with […]
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Think beyond tick-box compliance
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A year on since GDPR, many organisations are yet to stop fretting over fines and focus instead on business value Read via Computer Weekly.
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GDPR claims €114m in fines in under two years – with more to come this year
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
European data protection authorities have received more than 160,000 data-breach notifications since GDPR came into force in May 2018 Read via Computing.co.uk
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