The Information Commissioner’s Office is warning people of the risk of holdings on the sensitive personal data when they change jobs or leave a company. It follows an investigation into the actions of two former Metropolitan Police officers who – having retained their notebooks – subsequently leaked information about a case in the media. Although […]

The Education for Justice (E4J) initiative developed, with the support of academics from around the world, a series of modules on cybercrime. These university modules cover many aspects of this complex and fascinating field and include both theoretical concepts as well as practical knowledge.  Furthermore, these modules are multi-disciplinary in nature, since they focus on […]

The UK’s data privacy regulator has said it plans to fine the US hotel group Marriott International £99.2m. The penalty relates to a data breach that resulted in about 339 million guests having had their personal details exposed. The incident is thought to date back to 2014 but was only discovered in 2018. It comes […]

Pregnancy club Bounty UK has been given a £400,000 fine for illegally sharing the personal information of more than 14 million people. The fine was issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in what it said was an “unprecedented” case. Bounty compiled personal data but did not tell people that it was shared with 39 other organisations, […]

Emailing Confidential Data To Colleagues May Be Criminal Offence the following case is a salient lesson for all employees of all jersey firms but especially those in financial institutions (or those in large organisations) Under the GDPR, employers, as data controllers, must take appropriate security measures to ensure the availability and integrity of information systems […]

The way Facebook interacts with users is “unfair, deceptive and misleading”, according to a complaint lodged with US regulators. The Federal Trade Commission was told the company had failed to protect the privacy of those in patient health and other groups. Some users may have been exposed to “life-threatening privacy violations”, the complaint says. Facebook […]

DATA Protection Week 2019 got under way with a stark warning that every organisation will at some point suffer a data breach. The Jersey Opera House was the venue for the opening conference, which was organised by the Jersey Data Protection Association, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the States of Jersey and sponsored […]

Organizations Must Comply With Data Breach Reporting Requirements or Face Fines Private sector organizations in Canada must now report all serious data breaches to the country’s privacy watchdog. As of Nov. 1, new provisions in the country’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act came into force, which include mandatory tracking of all data breaches […]