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EE: Former Police Official Found Guilty of Leaking Personal Data

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Dissent

Meanwhile, in Estonia: On Tuesday, Harju County Court found Alice Järvet, a former head of the analysis and planning bureau, guilty of leaking information from a police database. Järvet was fined 9,398 euros and was suspended from police work for three years, court spokeswoman Kristina Ots told uudised.err.ee. In January, the public prosecutor made a…

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Attacks ‘highlight need for data breach notification law’

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Dissent

Paul Smith reports: The Australian Bankers Association has defended the strength of IT security processes in place across Australia’s banking system following the revelation that Reserve Bank of Australia systems had been compromised by China-based hackers. However, security experts said the incident highlighted the need for Australian data breach notification laws to be tightened to force…

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IE: Insurer ordered to pay costs in data breach case

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Dissent

Insurance company FBD has been ordered to pay High Court costs to a man following a case in which he claimed his data protection rights had been breached. The High Court last week vacated the Circuit Court award of €15,000 in damages to Michael Collins in March 2012 but did rule that there had been…

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Caribbean banks issue credit card alert (update 2)

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Dissent

I’ve continued to look for updates to recent reports of a breach affecting banks in the Bahamas. Is this related, I wonder: Banks and other financial institutions across the Caribbean have been impacted by a security breach at a financial institution in the region. This potential security breach can result in the compromise of a…

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Belgian Privacy Commission issues new recommendation on data security and breaches

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Dissent

Julien Hick, Jacqueline van Essen and Vincent Wellens of NautaDutilh write: Belgium recently experienced two significant data breaches (involving, amongst other companies, the Belgian railway operator), which resulted in the online disclosure of personal data relating to thousands of people. These events led the Belgian data protection authority (the Privacy Commission) to issue a recommendation on the security…

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Mandatory data breach notification law proposed in Canada

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dissent

Nestor E. Arellano reports: With the Conservative government’s privacy reform bill sitting untouched after being introduced about two years ago, New Democractic Party MP Charmain Borg has introduced a private member’s bill that that would make it mandatory for organizations to report data breach incidents. Bill C-475, Borg’s proposed amendment to the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document…

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