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UK "cavalier attitude to data protection”, having left 500,000 patient records in an unsecured location [41] 2020-01-15 TIM S.p.A. €27,800,000 Italy Unlawful processing for marketing purposes [42] 2020-03-10: Google LLC: SEK 75 M (€7 M) Sweden : Right-to-be-forgotten violations [43] 2020-07-06 BKR €840,000 The Netherlands
The incident was a breach of the UK's Data Protection Act and resulted in the resignation of HMRC chairman Paul Gray; Darling commented that the discs were probably destroyed when "the hunt was on, probably within days" and that there was an "opaque" management structure at HMRC and it was difficult to see who was responsible for what. [14]
The Act defined eight data protection principles to ensure that information was processed lawfully. It was superseded by the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) on 23 May 2018. The DPA 2018 supplements the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect on 25 May 2018. The GDPR regulates the collection, storage, and use of ...
The United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, is the domestic version of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), implemented into UK law through the Data Protection Act 2018 and came into effect alongside the EU GDPR in May 2018.
In summer 2018, a data breach affected almost 400,000 customers of British Airways, of which almost 250,000 had their names, addresses, credit card numbers and CVV codes stolen. The attack gained access to British Airways systems via the account of a compromised third party and escalated their account privileges after finding an unsecured ...
In addition to paying a fine of $80 million, Capital One (COF) has to ensure that it has adequate cyber security in place and submit the plans for review to the regulators.
The PSNI was fined £750,000 for an “egregious” data breach by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Meanwhile, thousands of officers and staff are pursing legal action against the ...
The PSNI has previously indicated that the data breach could potentially cost the force £240 million in security and legal costs Simon Byrne was chief constable at the time of the data leak in ...