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Violating Articles 5(1)(c) and 13 GDPR in relation to a video surveillance system in an apartment building. [58] 2021-04-15 Vodafone Espana, S.A.U. €150,000 (reduced to €90,000) Spain 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 GDPR requires for the additional information (such as the decryption key) to be kept separately from the pseudonymised data. Another example of pseudonymisation is tokenisation, which is a non-mathematical approach to protecting data at rest that replaces sensitive data with non-sensitive substitutes, referred to as tokens. While the tokens ...
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 September 2024, the DPC penalized Meta with 91 million euros ($101.5 million) for 2019 violations of the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) security standards.
Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the ...
In 2021 Facebook attempted to use "a legal trick" to bypass GDPR regulations in the European Union by including personal data processing agreement in what they considered to be a "contract" (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) rather than a "consent" (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) which would lead to the user effectively granting Facebook a very broad permission to ...
LONDON (AP) — 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 ...
Many companies offer free credit monitoring to people affected by a data breach, although only around 5 percent of those eligible take advantage of the service. [82] Issuing new credit cards to consumers, although expensive, is an effective strategy to reduce the risk of credit card fraud . [ 82 ]