Facebook May Face 100M Euro Lawsuit Over Privacy Breach
A French nongovernmental organization wants Facebook Inc. to pay 100 million euros ($113 million) and fix any problems stemming from […]
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Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data
If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the […]
Romania uses EU data protection law to silence journalists
An award-winning journalism outlet in Romania is being threatened with fines by the country’s data protection authorities – for having […]
ICO publishes report on use of data analytics in political campaigns
UK’s data protection authority ICO has published a report to Parliament that brings the various strands of its investigation up to date. […]
Data Breaches Compromised 4.5 Billion Records in First Half of 2018
Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data […]
Will Google+ be the final push US Congress needs to pass restrictions on data use?
Congress held a hearing a few weeks ago in response to news that Google kept secret a flaw that exposed […]
British Airways: data breach waters muddied
A recent statement issued by British Airways calls into question whether the data breach reported by the company last month […]
‘Stalkerware’ Website Let Anyone Intercept Texts of Tens of Thousands of People
A hacker exposes the awful security of two companies that sell spyware for consumers. By simply viewing the HTML of […]
CNIL Publishes Statistical Review of Data Breaches Since GDPR
Recently, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published a statistical review of personal data breaches during the first four […]
Lloyd v Google – putting the brakes on English data breach litigation?
A judgment handed down today by the English High Court will be welcomed by UK data controllers. Lloyd v Google […]
Vicarious liability in the data breach context – bad news for UK employers?
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the High Court holding that an employer can be vicariously liable […]
Amazon fires employee for allegedly sharing customer email addresses
An Amazon employee was fired after sharing customers’ email addresses with an unnamed third-party seller, in violation of company policies. Amazon […]