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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 Online Safety Act, which became law last year, sets tougher standards for platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, with an emphasis on child protection and the removal of illegal content.
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), [1] abbreviated GDPR, or RGPD (French for Règlement général sur la protection des données, Italian for Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati and Romanian for Regulamentul general privind protecția datelor) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic ...
In 1995, the EU passed the Data Protection Directive (DPD), which has recently been replaced with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive federal data breach notification law. The GDPR offers stronger data protection laws, broader data breach notification laws, and new factors such as the right to data portability.
In January 2024, a data breach dubbed the "mother of all breaches" was uncovered. [6] Over 26 billion records, including some from Twitter, Adobe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, were found in the database. [7] [8] No organization immediately claimed responsibility. [9] In August 2024, one of the largest data security breaches was revealed.
The enforcement of the Act by the Information Commissioner's Office is supported by a data protection charge on UK data controllers under the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018. Exemptions from the charge were left broadly the same as for 1998 Act: largely some businesses and non-profits internal core purposes (staff or ...
Further, the incident could be classed as a "personal data breach" which would be a data breach of the GDPR under Article 4 named "Definitions", paragraph 12. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 19 July 2024, a data-protection expert reported a breach of Article 32 named "Security of processing".
Healthcare data and personal information of more than 100 million people was stolen in the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time.