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Month: August 2020

GDPR News

Italy tops GDPR penalty list with €46m worth of fines this year

August 31, 2020 GDPR News Comments Off on Italy tops GDPR penalty list with €46m worth of fines this year

Since the start of the year European Union based-companies have been sanctioned with €68 million (£61.5m) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More that two-thirds of that has been paid over by Italian-companies, […]

GDPR News

GDPR Legal Action for Oracle & Salesforce for Improper Data Collection Practices

August 18, 2020 GDPR News Comments Off on GDPR Legal Action for Oracle & Salesforce for Improper Data Collection Practices

In the United States a legal action has been filed by a consumer privacy campaign group against Salesforce and Oracle, alleging that both entities have breached the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation with the […]

CCPA News

Instagram ‘Illegal Biometric Harvesting’ Leads to California Legal Action against Facebook

August 13, 2020 HIPAA News Comments Off on Instagram ‘Illegal Biometric Harvesting’ Leads to California Legal Action against Facebook

In California an accusation that the illegal harvesting the biometric data of over 100 million Instagram users has taken place has resulted in legal proceedings being initiated against Facebook, owner of the image sharing social […]

GDPR News

French Data Authority Investigating TikTok Data Management

August 12, 2020 GDPR News Comments Off on French Data Authority Investigating TikTok Data Management

France’s CNIL announced that it has initiated an investigation into data management practices of the social media platform TikTok. A spokeswoman for France’s CNIL revealed that it begun examining how the social media app manages user […]

HIPAA Advice

Court Holds Up Termination for Nurse HIPAA Violation

August 11, 2020 HIPAA News Comments Off on Court Holds Up Termination for Nurse HIPAA Violation

Norton Audubon Hospital  has revealed that a HIPAA violation that a patient alleged took place led to the termination of the registered nurse’s employment contract. The nurse in question, Dianna Hereford, initiated a legal action […]

Cyberlaw

US Companies need to look to the Old World

August 10, 2020 Eoin Campbell Comments Off on US Companies need to look to the Old World

Two court rulings made in July 2020 may prove to be among the most important legal precedents that American tech companies will ever have had to come to grips with. What is particularly interesting about […]

CCPA News

Google Facing Potential €10bn CCPA Class Action Suit

August 7, 2020 HIPAA News Comments Off on Google Facing Potential €10bn CCPA Class Action Suit

A California federal court legal action alleges that Google has been tracking smartphone users’ app activity without adequate authorization in breach of the California Consumer Privacy Act. The legal action that was filed in the […]

GDPR News

€17m GDPR Fine for Italian Telecom Provider Following Violations

August 5, 2020 GDPR News Comments Off on €17m GDPR Fine for Italian Telecom Provider Following Violations

It has been revealed that the Italian Data Protection Authority ‘Garante’ is sanctioning a €16,729,600 fine on telecoms provider Wind Tre in relation to a number of data processing activities, mostly related to direct marketing, […]

HIPAA Updates

Increasing Netwalker Ransomware Attacks Leads to FBI Flash Alert Warning

August 1, 2020 HIPAA News Comments Off on Increasing Netwalker Ransomware Attacks Leads to FBI Flash Alert Warning

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a (TLP:WHITE) FLASH alert following a rise in attacks using Netwalker ransomware. Netwalker is a new threat on the ransomware scene, first spotted in March 2020 after […]

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