Data

The radical change caused by the pandemic requires new approaches to data privacy practice, says PA Consulting’s Daniel Gordon

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Security-Think-Tank-Data-privacy-and-ethics-in-a-post-Covid-world

Securities and Exchange Commission says publisher misled its investors over the extent of a 2018 data breach

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505411/Educational-publisher-Pearson-fined-for-data-breach-cover-up

Information Commissioner’s Office to consult on its draft international data transfer agreement and guidance, which will replace standard contractual clauses to protect personal data during overseas transfers

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505230/ICO-consults-on-new-international-data-transfer-agreement

The Information Commissioner is calling for views on data protection and employment practices to help us shape our upcoming guidance products.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/ico-and-stakeholder-consultations/ico-call-for-views-on-employment-practices/

A Luxembourg regulator is planning to issue Amazon with a record fine under EU data protection laws, the company has disclosed.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/amazon-faces-record-gdpr-fine

If I were to ask you what your highest value business asset is, other than your staff and colleagues, what would you say? Your offices? Your library? Your computers and furniture?  While those may be important and expensive assets, there is one that is far more vital: your data.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/associate-news/six-ways-to-protect-your-firm-from-a-data-breach

What are the security issues and challenges presented by vaccine passports, and how should they be designed and used with ethics and privacy in mind?

The proposed collection of patient data held by GPs will now only commence when three key criteria have been fulfilled, says NHS Digital

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504236/NHS-Digital-tightens-rules-for-GPDPR-data-scrape

The ICO can confirm it is investigating an alleged data breach.

EMCOR Group (UK) plc, which provides facilities management and CCTV services for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has submitted a breach report as a processor of personal data, alleging images were taken from the DHSC CCTV system without consent from either EMCOR Group (UK) plc or the DHSC.

Activist lawyer Max Schrems and Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Hogan Lovells, look for common ground in a problem with no easy answers

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504100/Privacy-Shield-one-year-on-and-companies-are-still-grappling-for-answers