GDPR News

Dutch investigators are conducting an investigation following claims that Microsoft Office is in breach of the European Union General Data Protection Regulations in relation to the data the software has been gathering including the content […]

The operators of content Management platform WordPress have issued an advisory urging users to refresh the WP GDPR Compliance plug-in as soon as possible due to a flaw in the software leading to a potential […]

Privacy International, a UK-based registered charity that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world, last week filed a number of complaints against US-based Companies to European based Data Protection bodies concerning suspected breaches of the General Data […]

Facebook is facing the wrath of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) once again following a complaint made by the UK Information Commissioner Office (ICO) to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in […]

A potential General Data Protection Regulation breach impacting members of the firm’s loyalty and rewards scheme has been reported by the Radisson Hotel Group. The Radisson Hotel Group, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, has chain accounts for […]

In the United Kingdom, law firm RPC released a report which reveals that the average fine for failing to protect against data breaches has doubled to £146,000 in the year to 30 September 2018. ICO […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at a conference on data privacy in Brussels, has called for the United States to introduce data protection legislation as stringent as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]

A survey of 145 US corporate directors of public company boards conducted by BDO USA during August 2018 has revealed that eight out of ten companies have taken steps to ensure they are complying with necessary […]

It has been revealed that Google will be closing down its social media platform Google+ in light of an investigation being launch by the Data Protection Authority in Ireland into reports that it failed to […]

The Data Protection Authority (DPA) in Ireland is investigating social media giant Twitter over possible GDPR non-compliance after the company did not comply with a user request for information. A privacy researcher at the University […]

An interim injunction has been issued by Würzburg Regional Court against a lawyer who displayed an unfinished Privacy Policy on her firm’s website which also included an unencrypted and unprotected contact form. In making the […]

In the UK consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to safeguard millions of UK citizens’ personal data when a cyber attack happened in 2017. Private personal […]

Facebook has revealed that its engineers have discovered, and addressed, a serious data breach on September 25, last Tuesday, which affected approximately 50m account holders. Impacted users have been sent a notification and automatically logged […]

AggregateIQ, a Canadian-based analytics company which acted on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign, has been issued with the first ever UK GDPR notice by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in relation to business carried out […]

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal Amazon is being investigated due to allegations that some of its staff members have been leaking consumer and company data in return for payment. The claims […]

A GDPR complaint has been filed by the operators of the Brave internet browser with authorities in Ireland and the UK in relation to privacy breaches caused by Google and other ad tech companies. Chief […]

Google stated its case against the CNIL (France’s data protection agency) in relation to the GDPR ‘right to be forgotten’ to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday 11 September. The CJEU […]

Due to a computer hack accessing credit card data approximately 380,000 customers, British Airways will likely to be the first major company to face a test, and possibly extremely high financial penalties, under the European […]

From October 3, Apple App Store rules will oblige developers will have to disclose how users’ personal data is used, safeguarded and shared under a new privacy policy. In the release posted on the App […]

A new report by cyber security company NTT Security has revealed that 66% UK senior executives admit their company does not have adequate security cover to deal with a security breach the financial impact of […]

French data regulator CNIL has issued a warning to two French data companies, Fidzup and Teemo, for adhering to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The companies in question operate as location intelligence vendors. They […]

New figures released by law firm EMW in relation to complaints received by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom have revealed that the number of data protection complaints submitted to the office […]

ICANN has appealed the most recent decision made against it in the Appellate Court of Cologne. The organisation has argued that the German legal body has made a mistake in decreeing that they had not “sufficiently […]

A report from digital media company GlobalData published in July 2018, indicates that only 54% of North Americans in the global pharmaceuticals industry believe they are informed about the new European Union General Data Protection […]

Irish Telecommunications company eir has revealed that almost 37,000 of its customers have been impacted by a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach which occurred following the theft of a staff laptop. The laptop, which […]

The result of a recent study by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford indicates that the number of tracking cookies on EU news sites has decreased by 22% since the introduction of the […]

A recent report published by consent management platform Quantcast Choice has revealed that, for European Union (EU) domains an average consent rate over 90 percent is being experienced. The signifigance of this is further emphasized when it is […]

Hundreds of U.S. news websites have been unavailable in Europe since the May 25 introduction date of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation as they remain uncompliant in relation to the new legislation. Due […]

It has been revealed that a data breach at Dixons Carphone actually saw the personal data of 10 million people accessed, a much higher number than first indicated. A statement released by Dixons on Tuesday […]

Despite being hit with a $5bn EU fine and concerns in relation to the effect of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Alphabet, a Google-owned company, registered a second quarter revenue of $32.7 billion, […]

Following the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25 this year, the number of daily active Facebook users in Europe dropped by 3 million people from the first quarter, […]

A FIFA player used GDPR to research all of the the data that video game producer EA held on him and discovered that he had spent $10,000 playing the game over a two-year period. The […]

A survey carried out by the National Council of SMEs in Romania (CNIPMMR) has found that over 40% of the companies questioned had not adopted measures for the implementation of the GDPR prior to the May […]

British Airways was found to be breaching the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last week after a security researcher discovered that the airline’s social media team was requesting that customers post their […]

In the United Kingdom last week, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) hit social media platform Facebook with a, relatively, small but symbolic fine in relation to the Cambridge Analytica date protection law breaches which involved […]

UK-based eCRM group Marketing Delivery have revealed that, following some research conduct by the company, some dealers have been seen to be “overly conservative” about their communications with customers since the European Union General Data Protection […]

Last Monday (July 9) a German court, in the first decision applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ruled that data collection that exceeds what is necessary to achieve legitimate business purposes breaches one of the basic […]

GDPR has lead to a drop in the number of healthcare workers revealing payments or benefits from the pharma sector according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). In 2017, according to data […]

Timehop, an application which resurfaces photos and posts from social media accounts, has revealed that 21 million accounts including those of European Union residents, were illegally accessed on July 4. The data impacted includes names, email […]

The European Consumer Organization (BEUC) used artificial intelligence to review the privacy policies of 14 large tech companies, including those from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, and found that a number of these are not fully […]

A survey by IT firm MicroWarehouse has revealed that 20% of large Irish companies had not only utilized the time given to prepare for GDPR wisely but also that they went as far as hiring […]

Following the introduction of the European Unions’ General Data Protection Regulation on May 25 this year a surge in the number of complaints to regulators has been felt across Europe, reflecting the public awareness and interest […]

A recent survey conducted by the DMA, formerly the Direct Marketing Association, has revealed that barely a quarter of marketing staff were properly trained on General Data Protection Regulation legislation before it was introduced on […]

A father, Jozef Dmowski, of a Polish girl has made an allegation that doctors and rescue workers refused to inform him of the location of his injured daughter, after she was involved in an accident, due […]

An investigation is currently underway into one of the UK’s biggest data breaches at a single company following unauthorised access to 5.9 million Dixons Carphone customers’ cards being made available. Dixons Carphone discovered the massive data breach […]

Belgium’s Parliament published a draft law on June 12 that aims to bring the country’s data protection legislation in line with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which became enforceable on May 25th. The draft legislation […]

Arsenal Football Club has discovered that a GDPR breach occurred after the private details of club members were mailed, in error, to other club member when asking them to renew their membership of the football […]

European Union  Privacy investigations are probing after Google, Facebook Inc. and its apps WhatsApp and Instagram following 19 cross-border complaints submitted to regulators since GDPR legislation became enforceable on May 25. Andrea Jelinek, the EU […]

Regardless of the fact that there was a two-year grace window for companies to prepare for GDPR compliance a recent survey study titled “GDPR Readiness Survey” shows that very few are 100% compliant with the […]

Optical Center, a French company that specializes in selling eye and hearing aids, has been hit with a €250,000 fine for a data breach that occurred before the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation […]

Dido Harding, the former CEO of TalkTalk, has warned to companies to replace all legacy technology systems before in order to avoid being hit with massive fines Harding, present to discuss the fallout from TalkTalk’s […]

Following a data breach that impacted the privacy of 500 million people globally in 2014, Yahoo – and the comany’s new owners Oath, have escaped with a warning from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. As the General […]

It has been revealed, by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that the new data European Union protection law will be applied proportionately in Northern Ireland. Despite facing fines of up to 20m euros (£17.5m) for […]

It has been revealed that in excess of 1,300 concerns or complaints have been submitted to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) since the General Data Protection (GDPR) became enforceable on May 25. In a […]

The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation has been blamed for a 9% drop in the revenues of the Johnston Press Media Group. Johnston Press operates approximately 200 newspapers and websites across the United […]

Ghostery, a privacy and security-related browser extension and mobile browser application, breached the newly introduced European Union GDPR Data Privacy legislation with the email it distributed to it’s users to advise them of changes in Data […]

Social Media giant Facebook has launched two new features to help businesses better protect people’s privacy and respond to privacy requests following the introduction of the new European Union GDPR legislation last week. The two […]

In the United Kingdom the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, has stated that the majority of smaller firms were still working on their compliance with the new European Union General […]

New privacy group noyb (None of Your Business) has filed three lawsuits against Facebook and one lawsuit against Google claiming that the companies are not complying with the newly-introduced General Data Protection Regulation as they […]

In Ireland the police (Gardai) have warned the public to be extra diligent ahead of the introduction of the new European Union data protection legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this Friday May 25. With […]

With the May 25 introduction date the the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, computing giant Microsoft has announced that it will be extending the core privacy rights of the new EU legislation on […]

Chief Executive of Isme, Neil McDonnell, has pleaded with data-protection bodies to be “instructive, rather than punitive”, towards SMEs (small and medium enterprises), with the May 25 introduction date for the European Union’s General Data […]

The protected health information of 2,553 patients of Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc., of Baton Rouge, LA has been impacted following the theft of a laptop computer. The missing laptop was noticed by the group […]

While the General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on May 25 there seems to be no guarantee that businesses and organizations will be ready. GDPR is aimed at protecting the personal data of all […]

The European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee is  holding a series of meetings this week to go through a number of aspects concerning the introduction of the new General Data Protection Requirement on May 25. The […]

For some companies, being compliant with GDPR rules has resulted in a major outay of cash. The new legislation — effective May 25 — is aimed at protecting the data of every EU citizen anywhere […]

As of May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation go into effect in all European Union member states. However, this legislation aimed at protecting the data of all EU citizens anywhere in the world has […]

From May 25, the General Data Protection  Regulation will be enforceable. This document is aimed at protecting the right to privacy of European Union citizens anywhere in the world. Any company that has EU employees […]

PricewaterhouseCoopers has provided a solid example of what a business-to-business re-permissioning email for GDPR compliance should look like. The email clearly explains why PwC is asking permission to continue to send emails, what type of information […]

On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect for all European Union member states. This legislation, designed to safeguard the data of all EU citizens also affects any business or organization […]

UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has moved to dispel the two most common myths that, she says, are being associated with the coming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation that will be enforceable in the UK […]

In a move aimed at helping in the retention of its under-16s user base, Snapchat is altering changing its policy before the introduction of to GDPR on May 25. In a move that is markedly […]

Hilton Honors has started a repermissioning project for members of its loyalty program members. With the GDPR deadline less than 4 weeks away, it’s a surprisingly rare example of an international company launching a repermissioning […]

It has recently been revealed that Microsoft are introducing tooling enhancements to assist companies and groups using Azure and Office 365 services to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. Microsoft […]

While the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in all European Union states on May 25, there is no guarantee that all companies and organizations that do business or employ EU citizens will […]

A recent survey has shown that 80% of those in the healthcare profession plan to request that files containing their personal data be modified or completely deleted. When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes […]

Even before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, in May 2018, major companies have felt the impact of individuals requesting to be forgotten. This happens when an individual asks for personal data […]

WordPress has recently begun testing of its new platform. The purpose of the new version is to make Word Press tools compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) tools. There is a heavy […]

The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy has created a set of recommendations which outline the way in which to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On May 25, 2018, the GDPR will enact […]

In the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have made a joint statement regarding the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), on May 25 2018. The […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law across the European Union from  May 25 2018. One important aspect of GDPR, as far as EU citizens are concerned, is the right to be forgotten. This […]

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable on May 25 2018. European Union Member States are in the process of implementing laws that will bring their own data protection rules and […]

Looking at the results of a recent survey conducted by the UK Government, it seems that the business community of the country as a whole is ill-prepared for the introduction of the General Data Protection […]

Facebook is not the only giant of the Internet that seems to be focusing its attention on the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), on 25 May 2018. The social media site has […]

Facebook has not always had the best reputation, when it comes to the privacy of users. But it seems to be changing its ways, at least on the surface, in the face of the introduction […]

There is some contention surrounding the Data Protection Bill 2018, which has just been presented to the Irish Parliament. The Data Protection Bill is intended to introduce General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into Irish law. […]

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law across the European Union, it will also affect non-EU countries. This is because GDPR applies to all businesses and organisations that are involved with the processing […]

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan jointly presented the draft Data Protection Bill 2018 with Minister of State for data protection Paul Breen. The bill is intended to repeal Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 when it […]

Facebook has not exactly had a pristine reputation regarding privacy over the years. In 2009 it spent time persuading Facebook users to share as much information as possible with everyone else on the platform. There […]

There is a big change coming in the way that data protection is dealt with across the EU. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into operation on 25 May, 2018, and it’s important that all […]

The Article 29 working party has produced two documents which detail General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in relation to Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs). One document deals with controller BCRs and the other deals with […]

You may have heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on 25 May 2018. However, do you understand what its implications are pre and post Brexit? It is vital that […]

The simple answer to this question is that not all companies need to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is expected that larger companies (those that employ […]

As the date of implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), draws ever nearer, the European Commission has published guidance about the regulation, for use by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), governments, national authorities, businesses […]

Guidance has now been released by ICSA – The Governance Institute, which is intended to be used internally by companies, as the May 2018 implementation date of the General Data Processing Regulation (GDPR) draws near. […]