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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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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