All Data Protection & Privacy articles – Page 36
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NewsGerman football club Stuttgart fined for mishandling data
German football club VfB Stuttgart has been ordered to pay €300,000 ($361,000) by Baden-Wuerttemberg’s DPA for misusing data about its members. The club has also promised to educate young people about the importance of data protection.
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NewsScope widened for New Zealand privacy inquiry into police photography
Scope widened for New Zealand inquiry into police photography practice
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AnalysisData protection law changes in Brazil and beyond
Camila Tobón and Andrea Willemin will address PrivSec Global later this month on harmonising data protection compliance across Latin America. Here are their thoughts on Brazil’s ground-breaking new data protection law
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NewsUS lawmaker proposes Federal Privacy Bill to Congress
Democratic representative Suzan DelBene has reintroduced a bill aimed at creating a national standard for digital privacy rights in the United States.
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AnalysisBreaking the link between GDPR breach transparency and pain
The transparency requirements of GDPR are fuelling “micro-claims” for compensation, in addition to high-profile class action lawsuits. Stewart Room, preparing for his session at PrivSec Global, suggests the current system is creating perverse incentives and argues for a better solution
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NewsItalian government body fined for data breaches while investigating Covid-19 relief scandal
Italy’s social security and pensions agency Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS) has been ordered to pay €300,000 for contravening privacy protection laws when investigating politicians claiming state aid during the coronavirus crisis.
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AnalysisManaging employee data fairly through the use of AI
Artificial Intelligence solutions are increasingly being looked at in the management of human resources and talent in our workspaces, but how do you ensure they can be used fairly without bias? Dr Amy Lui Abel discusses some of the key considerations and how critical employee data can be managed.
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NewsUS state accused of excessive data collection prior to breach
Lawmakers in Washington state have questioned the extent of information collected by the state’s Employment Security Department (ESD) for fraud-monitoring purposes.
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NewsSwiss voters reject digital identity scheme amid data privacy trust concerns
A majority of voters, 64.4%, said no in a referendum to an electronic identity (eID) scheme which would be licensed and controlled by the Swiss government but provided mainly by private companies.
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NewsFrench DPA launches programme to assess audience measurement solutions for consent exemptions
France’s data protection authority has launched a programme to help determine whether specific audience measurement solutions are exempt from collecting user’s prior consent.
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NewsIntroducing the Women in Governance, Risk and Compliance series by GRC World Forums
GRC World Forums has today announced the launch of the Women in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Series
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WebinarHow to leverage APEC Accountability Agents for your organization’s global privacy and governance
With data volumes growing across borders and industries, everyone benefits from being able to demonstrate compliance with internationally recognized privacy and security measures.
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News South Africa’s regulator clamps down on Facebook’s contact-sharing
Social media giant Facebook cannot share any contact information it collects from WhatsApp users in South Africa with its other business without obtaining authorisation from the country’s Information Regulator (IR), the watchdog has ruled.
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NewsUS mortgage lender agrees to pay $1.5m penalty after failing to report cyber breach
Residential Mortgage Services (RMS) has agreed with New York state’s Department of Financial Services to pay $1.5m after failing to report a cyber breach.
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NewsMalaysia Airlines passengers’ data compromised for almost a decade
Personal details of Malaysia Airlines’ Enrich frequent flyer programme members were exposed in a security breach via a third-party IT service provider lasting from March 2010 through to June 2019, it has emerged.
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NewsVirginia becomes second US state to enact comprehensive data privacy law
Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act, which will force companies to give consumers the right to opt out of data collection, has this week been signed into law.
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NewsCJEU rules electronic communication location data must only be used in investigations of ’serious crime’
Location data drawn from electronic communications must only be used by law enforcement investigations involving ‘serious crimes’ and to prevent ‘serious threats to public security’, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled.
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AnalysisData adequacy: a flawed concept?
Following Schrems and Brexit, international data-sharing and the concept of adequacy has dominated much of the global news on data protection. But is adequacy itself a flawed concept? Marty Abrams explains why he thinks we need a better alternative
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NewsGDPR ‘out of date’ and needs revising, says one of its architects
Europe’s data protection laws need updating to take into account increased remote working and new technologies, according to a politician who was a driving force behind the legislation.
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NewsBusiness Update: UK cyber security boss calls on more women to join her
Jane Chappell of Arcanum Cyber Security hopes to inspire a new generation of women to enter the traditionally male-dominated field. (press release)
