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On 26 September 2024, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a monetary penalty notice fining the PSNI £750,000 for infringements of data protection law related to the breach. [73] The ICO found that the PSNI had failed to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data from 25 May 2018 to 14 ...
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
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.
Dell Data Breach. In March 2024, Dell suffered a significant data breach that exposed the personal information of over 180 million customers. The breach resulted from a vulnerability in Dell's ...
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.
European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling 251 million euros on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform that exposed ...
The legislation proposed to replace EU-derived data protection laws with a new UK regime of such laws. The bill would have established an Information Commission and transferred the Information Commissioner's functions to the commission. It also mandated the removal of cookie pop ups and banned nuisance calls with the power for increased fines. [1]
The regulation does not purport to apply to the processing of personal data for national security activities or law enforcement of the EU; however, industry groups concerned about facing a potential conflict of laws have questioned whether Article 48 could be invoked to seek to prevent a data controller subject to a third country's laws from ...