If you had a gleam in your eye thinking about how you might get $125 from Equifax as part of their settlement, guess again. The FTC announced today that so many people had already filed claims that Equifax wouldn’t have enough money to pay everyone, so …… the FTC says to take the free credit…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Hellenic Data Protection Authority fines Price Waterhouse Coopers 150K for employees’ data breach
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a 150,000 euros fine on Price Waterhouse Coopers Business SA (PWC BS) for the illegal processing of personal data of its employees, was reported on Tuesday, as per the general regulation for data protection. Read more on amna.gr A copy of the full decision (in English) appears below:
Protest data breaches threaten HK’s hub ambitions
The Macau Daily Times reports: Hong Kong’s ambitions to be an international data-center hub are a potential casualty of the city’s mass protests. […] Last month, dozens of protesters were arrested after being treated in the emergency ward of a public hospital following battles with riot police. The city’s Hospital Authority subsequently denied leaking patient…
Attackers Break Into Home of Investigative Journalist, Kill Her Dogs and Steal Her Reporting Records
Chantal Da Silva reports: The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on Mexican authorities to “immediately and credibly” investigate an attack on a nationally-renowned investigative journalist’s home that saw her two dogs killed and her reporting records stolen. According to the CPJ, a number of unidentified individuals broke into investigative reporter Lydia Cacho Ribeiro’s home…
UK: MoD reports number of computers and documents lost has trebled in last year
Keir Mudie reports: The number of computers and documents lost from secure government sites has almost trebled in the last year. Data breaches leapt from 117 to 463 and missing electronic devices or paper documents rose to 62 from 22 the year before, an official Ministry of Defence report revealed. It pointed out new rules mean more…
New York Becomes Fifth State to Define a Breach to Include “Access” to Information
Daniel De Zayas, a legal intern at ZwillGen, writes: New York has updated its breach notification and data security law, expanding the definition of a data breach and imposing detailed reasonable security requirements, among other changes. The amendment also adds a number of new data elements to the definition of “private information.” On July 25,…