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The ICO found a “catalog of errors,” including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus. Continue reading Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
The US capital region is on track to implement new regulations akin to the EU’s GDPR, the local government of Washington D.C. said in a press release. The law seeks to expand protections for residents’ personal data and includes new complia… Continue reading Washington D.C. takes a leaf from GDPR book, introduces new data privacy bill
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) £120,000 for failing to ensure that the personal data on its network was properly secured. The circumstances that led to the fine circulated widely in the medi… Continue reading Heathrow Airport escapes hefty GDPR fine; gets only £120,000 (under 1998 DPA) for 2017 privacy breach incident
More than a year after hackers breached credit reporting agency Equifax to steal 146 million customer records, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the company with a £500,000 fine – a small penalty for a such a mo… Continue reading Equifax fined £500,000 for ginormous 2017 breach
With speech recognition and voice-activated personal assistants slowly making their move into the corporate world, companies will have to adjust their security and digital strategies, infrastructure and customer interactions.
The post UK Enterpris… Continue reading UK Enterprises Concerned Voice-Activated Devices Could Easily Leak Data, Affecting GDPR Compliance
The University of Greenwich was fined $160,000 under the Data Protection Act of 1998 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for leaking the personal data of almost 20,000 staff, alumni and students, writes the BBC. The exposed information inclu… Continue reading The University of Greenwich fined by ICO for leaking 20,000 records
Whatsapp will face sanctions for sharing user phone numbers and usage data for “business intelligence” purposes with Facebook Continue reading WhatsApp and Facebook told to stop sharing data
We’re on the verge of a complete transformation of healthcare, as traditional telecare is about to be dethroned by connected care, according to a research report from Berg Insight. As telecare applications and devices collect and store large… Continue reading Connected care industry seen growing to €6 billion by 2022; GDPR to bring challenges
The United States Congress plans to introduce a bill that would push companies to report a breach within 30 days of its occurrence, or else. The law echoes similar efforts in the European Union, which aims to enforce similar regulations next year…. Continue reading New law to compel US businesses to inform users of data breaches
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: probe in Jupiter fly-by; footage of politician ‘not illegal’; Trump sued over Twitter block