Data

The European Commission should amend its draft decision on UK data protection to ensure EU standards for citizens’ privacy are respected.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210517IPR04124/data-protection-meps-urge-the-commission-to-amend-uk-adequacy-decisions?xtor=AD-78-%5BSocial_share_buttons%5D-%5Btwitter%5D-%5Ben%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bpressroom%5D-%5Bjoint-debate-data-protection-adequacy%5D-

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined American Express Services Europe Limited (Amex) £90,000 for sending more than four million marketing emails to customers who did not want to receive them.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/05/amex-fined-for-sending-four-million-unlawful-emails/

A recent penalty imposed by the Dutch data protection authority should spur UK businesses to urgently review whether they need to appoint an EU-based data protection representative to continue servicing EU-based consumers in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an expert has said.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/warning-for-uk-businesses-after-dutch-gdpr-fine

Leaking of deeply confidential and personal information on patient healthcare marks a new low for the criminal Conti gang

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252501064/Reports-of-stolen-Irish-health-service-data-being-leaked-online

DCMS is announcing a National Data Strategy Forum to help the country seize the opportunities of data.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-data-strategy-forum-launched-to-help-uk-become-the-worlds-number-one-data-destination

Researchers at VPN firm Surfshark have been analysing data on 533 million people leaked from Facebook

Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak (computerweekly.com)

Regulators may be unable to do much about leaked data on 533 million Facebook users, as it seems to have been stolen before GDPR came into force

Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR (computerweekly.com)

Facebook gives its side of the story as data on millions of its users leaks, but is yet to apologise for security lapses that put half a billion people at risk of compromise

Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak (computerweekly.com)

British clothing brand FatFace has sent a controversial 'confidential' data breach notification to customers after suffering a ransomware attack earlier this year.

FatFace sends controversial data breach email after ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Bulk SMS messages sent by local councils across the UK contained weblinks leading to pages that freely exposed to the public thousands of taxpayers' names, addresses, and outstanding debts, The Register can reveal.

Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts • The Register