A release of the US Department of Justice reports that the US and UK intend to bring into force the Agreement on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement”), which was signed in 2019, on Oct. 3, 2022. It will be the first agreement of its kind, allowing...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered CafePress t-shirt and merchandise site former owner to pay a USD 500,000 fine for a data breach it suffered in 2018, but which it also covered up, that impacted more than 23 million customers. The FTC found out that CAfe Press failed to protect their personal data,...
In a recent audit, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process. HHS sets standards for protecting electronic health information and enforces compliance with them, where data breaches for entities under the...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release announcing that Paige A. Thompson, former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer who gained illicit access to sensitive data belonging to Capital One customers, has been convicted. Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a...
The US media channel CNBC reports that the US Chamber of Commerce would be against the US Congress moving forward with the proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). The American Data Privacy and Protection Act “as drafted is unworkable and should be rejected,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote in a draft letter...
The US based Shields Health Care Group (SHCG) reported a healthcare cyberattack impacting about 2 million patients who received various kinds of health services at more than 30 locations across New England. SHCG discovered suspicious activity on its network on 28 March 2022, related to access to certain of its systems from March 7 to...
A team of bipartisan lawmakers unveiled new data privacy legislation that stands to finally . US Representatives Frank Pallone, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Senator Roger Wicker are moving forward a bill entitled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) to implement a federal set of regulations to protect Americans’ online information. The bill lists...
Twitter has agreed to pay USD150m to settle claims for misuse of private information between 2013 and 2019. Allegedly, Twitter used such private information collected by misrepresenting that it was gathered for reasons of security. Find more on Reuters here.
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