United Kingdom Capita fined £14mn by the ICO for 2023 cybersecurity failures UK hit by record number of cyber attacks, NCSC reports United States US ambassador encourages EU-US cooperation on AI and tech regulation Massachusetts hacker sentenced to prison for massive data breach and extortion of PowerSchool Europe Italian regulator stops deepfake “undressing” app over […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom UK tribunal rules in favour of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the $10 million GDPR fine imposed on Clearview Former Master Chef presenter claims up to £10,000 in damages from the BBC for failure to comply with his request to access his personal data United States Google goes back on its rule […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom Supply Chain Attack Exposes Almost Half a Million Harrods Customers Records The data breach is significant – affecting approximately 430,000 ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Meta extends pay-or-consent ad model to the UK London nurseries hit by hackers, data on 8,000 children stolen United States Most coal-fired power plants will delay retirement to feed AI boom, energy secretary says Google wins US court order against LATAM Airlines in YouTube video dispute Europe Swiss vote on electronic identity cards […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom Reports warn that over half of insider cyberattacks on UK schools come from students directly The Information Commissioner Office’s (ICO) rec ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Online Safety Act: Ofcom’s Crackdown on Pornography Sites Hundreds of Parents Outraged after School Data Breach United States Disney Settles with FTC for Violating Children’s Online Privacy US places $11 Million Bounty on Ukrainian Ransomware Mastermind Europe European Commission Proposes Adequacy for EU-Brazil Data Transfers France’s Data Protection Regulator Has Issued a €325 Million […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom Guernsey patient’s medical data is shared without clear consent Jaguar Land Rover’s production suffers as they are hit by a cyber attack United States EU upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework and dismisses Latombe challenge Europe The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirms that pseudonymised data may not be personal data […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulation The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK are planning to open up mark ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom The UK withdraws controversial demand to access US Apple users’ data UK telecom firm Colt faces $200k ransom threat after cyberattack exposing personal data Yemen cyber army hacker jailed for defacements and mass data theft United States Google to settle YouTube children’s privacy suit for $30M FTC warns tech companies to not under-protect […]| IGS – Legally Trained Consultants
United Kingdom Retailers warned by ICO not to publicly display photos of suspected shoplifters UK’s data watchdog has said shopkeepers must not put up photo ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Scottish Charity Birthlink Fined £18,000 for Destroying Irreplaceable Personal Records Scottish charity Birthlink was fined £18,000 by the IC ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom 23andMe fined £2.31 million for failing to protect UK users’ genetic data The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined genetic testi ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom UK Parliament advances Data (Use and Access) Bill, awaits Royal Assent The UK Parliament passed the proposed Data (Use and Access) Bill, whic ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Preparing for change: how the Data (Use and Access) (DUA) Bill will transform UK data practices The DUA Bill was introduced to the House of L ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Adidas says customer data stolen in cyberattack Adidas has disclosed that it has been affected by a cyberattack in which customer’s personal ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack The Ministry of Justice has announced that a “significant amount” of private data has bee ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom UK’s Legal Aid Agency experiences cyberattack The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice, ha ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
Introduction In early 2023, a Twitter spokesperson for TikTok, Booke Oberwetter, called the Biden administration’s ban of TikTok from all devices used by US ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
United Kingdom UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data The UK Home Office has served a notice under the Investigatory Powers Act to Apple dema ...| www.informationgovernanceservices.com
