Morrisons supermarket chain fined for flouting customers’ marketing wishes
A national supermarket chain has been fined for breaking the law on how people’s personal information should be treated when […]
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Gloucester City Council fined by ICO for leaving personal information vulnerable to attack
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Gloucester City Council £100,000 after a cyber attacker accessed council employees’ sensitive personal information. […]
Reasonable Retention Of Personal Information: The Compliance Advantage Of Risk-Based Polices And Procedures For Information Governance
A recent privacy breach case in Canada offers practical guidance for organizations anywhere to avoid the over-retention of personal data. […]
Essex local authority fined for publishing sensitive personal data in online planning documents
A council has been fined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for publishing sensitive personal information about a family. Source: […]
Dani Mathers Faces Jail Time For Snapchat Photo
The former playboy model has been charged with misdemeanor invasion of privacy for the post, which she added to her […]
Facebook faces fines, investigations in EU
One day after Italy’s antitrust regulators announced Facebook has been fined 3 million euros for putting an “excessive emphasis” on the need to […]
EU Fines Facebook $122 Million Over Disclosures in WhatsApp Deal
The penalty is one of the largest fines against the social network and comes amid growing scrutiny of how the […]
Facebook Gets Fined By 2 European Privacy Regulators
On Tuesday Dutch and French data protection authorities issued fines to Facebook saying that its data handling practices broke their countries’ privacy […]
Encryption May Lower Fines Under New EU Privacy Regime
Companies can lower the risk of massive fines under the new European Union privacy regime by embracing encryption of personal […]
Encryption May Lower Fines Under New EU Privacy Regime
New EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes with high fines – up to 20 million Euros or 4% of […]
Data protection boss vows she will use new powers to fine firms up to €20m
In the interview Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon reveals intention to use powers given by new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]