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Violation of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR by processing personal data without consent or any other legal basis. When imposing the fine, the AEPD took into account: The type of data affected: basic identifiers such as names, surnames, phone number. The relation between the processing and the business activities of the respondent.
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TikTok has been fined £12.7M ($15.9M) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for several breaches of children’s data protection law. John Edwards, the UK’s Information ...
The Police Federation for Northern Ireland called for an "urgent inquiry" into the data breach. [1] Ulster Unionist Party Mike Nesbitt representative on the Policing Board called for an urgent meeting of the board. [1] Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said that the sheer scale of the breach was "profoundly concerning". [1]
The financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic was cited as one reason for the reduced fine. [5] In 2021 the law firm Pogust and Goodhead announced that they were representing a group of BA customers who had been affected by the breach in "the largest group-action personal-data claim in UK history". [6] The class was settled out of court. [7]
The Irish watchdog — Meta’s lead European data privacy regulator because its regional headquarters is in Dublin — fined the company 210 million euros for violations of EU data privacy rules ...
The following is a list of UK government data losses. It lists reported instances of the loss of personal data by UK central and local government, agencies, non-departmental public bodies, etc., whether directly or indirectly because of the actions of private-sector contractors. Such losses tend to receive widespread media coverage in the UK.
Since Elizabeth Denham was appointed Britain's Information Commissioner in 2016, the ICO has undertaken high-profile investigations into Equifax, Yahoo, Talk Talk, Uber, and Facebook; issuing the maximum fine under the Data Protection Act 1998 of £500,000 to Facebook, [9] for breaches of data protection law. Denham has also overseen the ...