22 June, 2018 : Dixons Carphone admits data breach. Dixons Carphone has admitted that a colossal data breach ocurred during a hacking attempt in July last year. The company is investigating the incident, which involves 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. Dixons Carphone said it had no evidence that any of...Read More
20 May, 2018 : BT fined by ICO for sending marketing emails without consent. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Telecommunications plc (BT) £77,000 after the company was discovered to have sent almost 5 million nuisance emails to its customers. The ICO investigation found that BT had broken the law, by sending direct...Read More
June 12, 2018 : MEPs call to suspend Privacy Shield framework MEPs are calling on the European Commission to suspend the Privacy Shield framework. The Civil Liberties committee has voiced concerns over firms that have misused people’s personal data, following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach. Ministers have drawn attention to the need for improvements in...Read More
12 June 2018 : Yahoo fined for data breach The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has fined Yahoo £250,000 over a data breach, following a cyber attack which occured in 2014. Because the incident pre-dates the GDPR, the ICO’s investigation was carried out under the Data Protection Act 1998. The data breach resulted in the theft...Read More
Lisbon, 26 May 2018 : Speech by Michel Barnier at the 28th Congress of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE) – by kind permission of the European Commission Mr. President, dear José Luís da Cruz Vilaça, Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me, first of all, Mr. President, to thank FIDE and the Portuguese Association of...Read More
April 2018 : Hilton is fined for Data Breach Hilton Domestic Operating Company, Inc, the parent company of Hilton Hotels, has received a $700,000 (£525,000) fine after being accused of mishandling two separate data breaches involving credit cards. The attacks, which occurred in 2014 and 2015, resulted in more than 360,000 accounts being put at...Read More
