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GDPR is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, in force since 25 May 2018. It governs the processing of personal data by organizations in the EU and, in some circumstances, organizations elsewhere that offer services to or monitor people in the EU. It sets principles and lawful bases for processing, gives individuals rights over their data, and defines duties for controllers and processors.
For security practitioners, GDPR requires risk-appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data, such as access control, encryption or pseudonymization where appropriate, resilience, and regular testing. Privacy by design and by default should shape system and data-flow decisions. A personal-data breach may require notifying the relevant supervisory authority without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of awareness; affected individuals may also need notification when the risk is high. These obligations make asset and data inventories, processor oversight, retention controls, and breach playbooks operationally important.
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Council of the EU Rejects Redefinition of 'Personal Data'A rejection by European Union member governments of proposal backed by the European Commission to make it easier to share data about individuals won cautious plaudits from Paul Nemitz, a key architect of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation.
Resilionix's Heather Lowrie on Embracing GDPR as Tool for Change and ResilienceIn a modern regulatory environment, compliance is no longer just an exercise in ticking off boxes. Thanks to GDPR, financial services firms are shifting from a reactive mindset to a more proactive approach to compliance that focuses on risk management, said Heather Lowrie, director at Resilionix.
Privacy Activists Decry Loosening Record-Keeping RequirementsPrivacy rights groups urged the European Commission to retreat from proposals to revise the GDPR. Europe pledged to lessen record-keeping obligations for companies with up to 500 employees so long as the data processing isn't "likely to result in a high risk."
Irish DPC Imposes a Fine for GDPR ViolationsTikTok must pay 530 million euros to the Irish data regulator for non-compliance with European privacy law. The nearly $600 million fine stems from TikTok's storage of European user data on servers in China and failure to disclose data transfers to China from July 2020 through November 2022.
Firm Failed to Close Outdated User Account, Waited 43 Days to Notify RegulatorsThe U.K. Information Commissioner's Office imposed a fine of 60,000 pounds against Liverpool-based law firm DDP Law for GDPR violations relating to a 2022 ransomware hack and data leak that exposed sensitive information including the details of its clients' cases.
Norwegian Man Tells OpenAI: I Didn't Kill My ChildrenA Norwegian man is peeved that a chatbot hallucinated a violent backstory for his life after seeing that ChatGPT apparently believes he's a child killer spending decades inside prison. "The fact that someone could read this output and believe it is true is what scares me the most," he said.
Exploring New Ways to Deliver and Measure Cybersecurity Awareness ProgramsRegulations like GDPR, HIPAA and CMMC have made security awareness training a staple of corporate security programs. But compliance is only part of the story. Organizations face an even deeper challenge: influencing employee behavior in ways that create a truly secure workplace.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
The Irish DPC Imposed the Fine for GDPR ViolationsThe Irish Data Protection Commission imposed a 310 million euro fine on LinkedIn for violating a European privacy law stemming from the company's use of customer data. It ordered the social media platform to bring its data processing under compliance.
Inquiry Launched to Determine the Company's Compliance With GDPRThe Irish data regulator launched an investigation to determine Google's compliance with a European privacy law when it was developing its PaLM 2 artificial intelligence model. Google launched the multilingual generative AI model last year.
5th Nation to Investigate Software Firm Imposes Largest GDPR Penalty, Bans UseThe Dutch data regulator is the latest agency to fine artificial intelligence company Clearview AI over its facial data harvesting and other privacy violations of GDPR rules, joining regulatory agencies in France, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
Home Office Electronic Migrant Tracking System Violates UK GDPR, Says ICOA defunct U.K. Home Office pilot project that tracked the whereabouts of 600 migrants violated British privacy law, the British data regulator said early Friday in London, giving the agency a deadline of nearly a month to bring its data processing requirements under compliance.
Ride-Hailing Company Fined for Inadequate Data Transparency Practices Under GDPRUber must pay a fine of 10 million euros to the Dutch data protection authority after the agency found the ride-hailing app maker had not been transparent about how long it kept driver data and which employees outside of Europe had access to the data.
4.7 Billion Euros in Total Known Fines Since Data Protection Law Took EffectIreland - home to the European headquarters of a throng of multinational tech companies - is responsible for the greatest amount of aggregate data protection fines - 2.9 billion euros - since the European Union General Data Protection Regulation went into effect.
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Heads to the House of LordsBritish Conservative lawmakers are pushing ahead with legislation modifying the U.K. codification of European privacy law despite objections from privacy advocates and concerns about the legislation's impact on European trade. Government backers say the bill will bolster the domestic AI industry.