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A woman whose data was stolen has described how criminals threatened to post naked photos of her online.
Louise, from south Wales, was one of the 500-plus current and former staff of cosmetics giant Shiseido whose data was stolen in a breach.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued new guidance for employers on how to handle subject access requests (SARs).
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ico-guidance-subject-access-requests
Five years on from its introduction into law, there is evidence that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has caused a shift in boardroom attitudes to data protection compliance – meeting a core objective of the legislators and regulators that drove reform.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/en-gb/out-law/analysis/business-strategies-gdpr-technological-change
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into EU law raised the stakes for businesses in terms of their data protection law compliance. Today, the impact of giving data protection authorities tougher enforcement powers is evident.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/en-gb/out-law/analysis/data-protection-enforcement-evolve-gdpr
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a fine of €1.2 billion on Meta’s Irish subsidiary and ordered the company to stop sending the personal data of Facebook users in Europe to the US – beginning in five months’ time.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/en-gb/out-law/news/record-gdpr-fine-issued-data-transfers
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £12,700,000 fine to TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) for a number of breaches of data protection law, including failing to use children’s personal data lawfully.
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2023/04/ico-fines-tiktok-127-million-for-misusing-children-s-data/
Draft legislation published by the UK government would significantly alter existing data protection law in the country if enacted but also closely resembles abandoned proposals that were introduced before the UK parliament last summer, according to experts at Pinsent Masons.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/data-protection-law-reforms-set-out-in-the-uk
Turns out the UK government, under current prime minister Rishi Sunak, is not replacing the GDPR, as Michelle Donelan, his secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, implied last October — when as a fresh-in-post digital secretary under a different PM, she paused the flagship data protection reform, saying the government wanted to rethink its approach and inviting businesses to “co-design” the legislation with her.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/uk-data-reform-bill-no-2/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL-WCsCECHG2oqb6GXIfgRoZDiYEoC4R3Qrmdc--8zPwPDIoXDak5rd4bgv1sd7F8jlrg-5oG_4KkUlO9R-SXaj8FS_IVBuzWn4EefudNVKksqeTMqX7kecHZeUQQq4EvIEJsuURsSVphguuPhTUdgpcjTiE5Y1hN_f04P3Q76P_
The European Commission plans to “streamline” the way data protection authorities (DPAs) across the EU cooperate with one another when enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/en-gb/out-law/news/gdpr-enforcement-cooperation-streamlined
Privacy Shield 2.0, a new framework for transferring personal data from the EU to the US, could be in effect by spring 2023 after the European Commission published a draft decision endorsing the framework on Wednesday.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/privacy-shield-20-euus-data-transfers-decision-drafted
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