Data

A judge has rejected Yahoo's attempt to draw a line under a series of breaches it experienced between 2013 and 2016.

Deployments of new technologies are putting sensitive corporate data at risk because organisations are struggling to secure these new IT environments, a report confirms

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252456594/New-tech-putting-sensitive-data-at-risk-report-confirms

The way personal data is used in criminal investigations is an issue of growing significance. Balancing the huge increase in digital information with our duty to respect privacy and ensure all reasonable lines of inquiry are pursued is an important challenge (Rape victims fear being ‘put on trial’ by phone history, 13 January).

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/letter-sunday-telegraph-sue-hemming-director-legal-services-personal-data-and-how-it-used

Home improvement retailer B&Q has suffered a data breach affecting 70,000 of its… well, not customers, exactly.

France’s data protection regulator, CNIL, has issued Google a €50 million fine (around $56.8 million USD) for failing to comply with its GDPR obligations. This is the biggest GDPR fine yet to be issued by a European regulator and the first time one of the tech giants has been found to fall foul of the tough new regulations that came into force in May last year.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191591/google-gdpr-fine-50-million-euros-data-consent-cnil

Gargantuan 87GB trove of email addresses and passwords was sourced from thousands of separate data breaches

A business that failed to respond fully to a data subject access request and later ignored an enforcement notice served on it for doing so has been fined £15,000 for breaching UK data protection laws.

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2019/january/business-fined-after-data-subject-access-request-failings/

Fewer people were impacted by the Marriott data breach than first thought, but up to 383 million hotel guests may have had their personal information compromised in the incident, the company has admitted

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2019/january/marriott-updates-on-data-breach-impact/

The hotel chain found that since 2014, an undetected hacker had unauthorized access to names, emails and in 327 million peoples’ cases, passport numbers. Marriott became aware of the hack in early September and announced it mid-November.

https://acfeinsights.squarespace.com/acfe-insights/what-the-marriott-data-breach-means

As perhaps the world's most wide-reaching, comprehensive data protection rule, the General Data Protection Regulation is having a ripple effect that almost seemed inevitable.

https://www.paymentssource.com/news/europes-gdpr-to-become-a-more-global-phenomenon-in-2019