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The 1st of July 2021 the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) will come completely into force; therefore, companies and multinationals located within South Africa shall be liable for becoming POPIA compliant. This regulation, along with [...]
The Portuguese Data Protection Commission (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados – CNPD) has ordered the Portuguese office of national statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estatística - INE) to suspend within 12 hours the transfer of personal data from [...]
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has recently issued a fine of €475,000 to the online touristic operator Booking.com for having notified a data breach to the DPA with a sensible delay. The data breach The staff of about 40 Hotels located in the Un [...]
Fine of 440.000 EUR imposed by Autoriteitspersoonsgegevens on Dutch Hospital. Back in the lovely Spring of 2019, the Autoriteitspersoongegevens (‘AP’) started investigations against the Onze Lieve Vrouwen Gasthuis (‘OLVG’). The OLVG is an educational hospital [...]
The Regensburg (Bavaria) Regional Court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for manslaughter based on evidence from voice recordings of an Alexa smart speaker. The Case The court found the perpetrator –reportedly a notorious stalker– guilty of [...]
Over 300 million social account records, originating from several platforms including Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, were recently exposed through a massive data leak from the cloud of SocialArks. More than 400GB of public and private account data [...]
As of July 2019, the National Health Service in the Great Britain has founded the NHSX by combining teams from the UK Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the NHS Improvement. The NHSX is a digital health and social care transformation [...]
On December 30, last, the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), has issued a sanction in the amount of approximately EUR. 3.000, as it found that the bank continued to process the data of a subject (a former customer), [...]
