The Office of Information Security of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a report providing insights into the May 2021 Conti ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. With the report, the HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) provides advice for US healthcare and public health...
A press release reads that the European Union Commission has published a study mapping and estimating the volume of data flowing to main cloud infrastructures across the 27 Member States, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. The study provides an overview of volume and types of cloud data inflows and outflows per economic sector, location,...
The press release of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) informs that it has fined a Welsh company for making more than half a million unsolicited marketing calls. The ICO underlines that it is against the law to make marketing calls to phone numbers that have been registered with the Telephone Preference Service for more...
“we also continue to monitor developments regarding the viability of transatlantic data transfers and their potential impact on our European operations”. This sibylline sentence in Meta’s Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results report did not go unnoticed. Analysts believe that the gradually increasing application of the EU GDPR might bring Facebook and other Meta’s...
A new #Chinese #privacy #law – the Personal Information #Protection Law (#PIPL) – took effect on November 1, 2021. But what are the key implications for businesses? How companies can #comply with the new law? This document gathered some practical tips and insights on how to #comply with the new law collected during our webinar hosted on November 24th. Learn how...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has published his Opinion on the EU legislators’ proposed Regulation on transparency and targeting for political advertising. In his Opinion, Wojciech Wiewiórowski expressed appreciation for the aim and the objective of the draft Regulation which seeks to promote free and fair elections in the EU, therefore strengthening the EU’s...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted Guidelines on Right of Access at its January 2022 plenary session. The Guidelines aim to analyse the various aspects of the right of access and to provide more precise guidance on how the right of access has to be implemented in different situations. In addition, the EDPB adopted...
The Chief Legal Officer of Google and Alphabet, Kent Walker, points out that for the existence of an open and accessible internet is essential for EU and US to agree on a new international data transfer framework. Walker’s blog also addressed the recent Austrian Data Protection Authority decision ruling that Google Analytics does not provide...
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