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Facebook’s lead European regulator investigates Instagram’s processing of children’s data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched two statutory inquiries into the processing of children’s data on Facebook-owned social media platform, Instagram.
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British Airways fined £20m over data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 of its customers.
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PWC Middle East launches DIFC-backed data protection compliance tool
PwC Middle East has launched a data privacy assessment tool to help companies in Dubai comply with new data protection legislation.
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Brazil’s new data protection regime
As the LGPD finally came into effect last month, PrivSec Report explores the new law and the impact it could have on the Brazilian data protection ecosystem and culture.
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The UK’s Department for Education ‘failed to protect children’s data’, ICO finds
A National Pupil Database held by the UK’s Department of Education had ‘no formal proactive oversight’ to protect children’s data, the Information Commissioner’s Office has found.
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European privacy laws to blame for continued self-harm content, says Instagram
Content that breaks Instagram’s own rules on promoting and glamourising eating disorders and self-injury can still be found on the platform, an investigation has revealed.
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DIFC’s data protection landscape: aligning global measures
As the region approaches the end of the DIFC Data Protection Law transition period, PrivSec spoke with Mohammad Khalaf, Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer at Arab Bank in Jordan to discuss the significance of the new law.
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Youtube faces £2bn UK court battle over alleged children’s privacy breach
YouTube is facing a legal battle over claims it is breaching millions of young people’s privacy and data rights.
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Human error reveals personal data of 18,000 Welsh Covid-19 sufferers
Public Health Wales yesterday announced a data breach involving the personally identifiable data of 18,105 people resident in Wales who had received a positive test for Covid-19.
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Facebook launches legal action against IDPC over proposed halt to EU-US data transfers
Facebook has begun legal action against the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC).
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Brazilian Senate throws out delay to new data protection law
In a surprise move, the Brazilian Senate on Wednesday rolled back a planned Presidential postponement of Brazil’s new data protection law, originally scheduled to become effective on August 14 2020, but which had been delayed until May 2021, law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth reports in The National Law Review.
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TikTok fights US ban in federal court challenge
Tiktok has gone to court to challenge Donald Trump’s executive order banning US transactions with its owner.
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ICO still probing GDPR concerns despite UK exam results U-turn
The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK confirmed today its enquiries into data protection issues are ongoing following examinations body Ofqual’s use of a controversial algorithm for A-level exam grades.
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UK Data Protection Index: first findings published
Data protection professionals are calling out for more investment for internal resources, software systems and staff training, but only a quarter expect their budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the findings of the first UK Data Protection Index.
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Trump bans Chinese apps WeChat and TikTok over data collection and national security concerns
The Trump administration targeted WeChat and TikTok on Thursday by announcing executive orders banning US transactions with Chinese owners Tencent Holdings Ltd and ByteDance, Reuters has reported.
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Research
Charting the UK Data Protection Profession: August 2020 Report
Data Protection World Forum and the DPO Centre are announcing the findings of the first UK Data Protection Index – a quarterly survey of a panel of UK data protection and privacy professionals.
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Article
Danish hotel group fined for failing to delete customers’ details
The Arp-Hansen Hotel Group in Denmark has been fined 1.1m Danish crowns (US$170,000, €148,000) and referred to the police by the country’s data protection authority (Datatilsynet) for storing information on clients longer than necessary.
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Facebook sues EU over ‘exceptionally broad’ data requests in competition investigations
Facebook is taking EU competition authorities to court over data requests in two ongoing European Commission investigations into the company which, Facebook contends, are excessive.
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Blog
Four steps to staying CCPA compliant
When GDPR rolled out on May 25, 2018, the fines were so high that many companies questioned if they would even be enforced. It wasn’t until this last year when The Information Commissioner’s Office fined British Airways $230M as a result of its 2018 data breach that organisations realised these fines were taken very seriously. But the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which was put in effect on January 1, 2020, raised a new standard for consumer privacy rights at the U.S. state level and this time, the fines are being taken seriously starting day one.
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Privacy lawyer gives insight on the disruption expected after Schrems II ruling
Abigail Dubiniecki, freelance lawyer and privacy professional, talks with PrivSec about the likely complications that will follow the invalidation of the Privacy Shield and the new terms of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).