PARIS (Reuters) – France’s data protection watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google 50 million euros ($57 million) on Monday for breaching European Union online privacy rules, the biggest such penalty levied against a U.S. tech giant. The French regulator said the world’s biggest search engine lacked transparency and clarity in the way it informs users about its […]

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 […]

Jersey’s data protection laws could be overhauled if draft legislation proposed by the Council of Ministers is agreed by the States Assembly. Ministers say that the proposed laws would help to strengthen individuals’ rights, as well as ensure that Island businesses remain competitive. On 28 May next year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation […]

With strong penalties expected for companies that don’t comply, the travel industry is gearing up for new data regulation, which comes into effect in May next year. May 25th next year is a momentous day for Europe. It’s not a royal wedding, but the day that a new piece of legislation comes into effect. The General Data […]

Organisations storing personal information, should be prepared to process a large number of data access requests when GDPR goes into effect. While many of the headlines about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) focus on the large fines that organisations could face in the event of security breaches, another big concern are so called data […]

Research shows only five per cent of IT decision makers have all the necessary data governance strategies in place to be compliant ahead of 25th May 2018 deadline Research from Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, reveals that whilst the majority (54%) of UK businesses expect a data breach in the next […]

What is a personal data breach? A personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data. This means that a breach is more than just losing personal data. Example: A hospital could be responsible for a personal data breach if a patient’s […]