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Malaysia introduces watershed amendments to Personal Data Protection Act 2010

Data Protection Report

On 16 July 2024, the Malaysian Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament) passed the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024 (the PDP Bill ). Direct obligations for data processors : Data processors will be directly subject to obligations under the Malaysian PDPA, in particular security obligations.

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T-Mobile data breach affects more than 1 million customers

IT Governance

T-Mobile has confirmed that its systems have been hacked, with cyber criminals stealing the personal data of more than one million US customers. There are few things worse than announcing the details of a data breach only to later find that things are much worse than you initially thought. Can T-Mobile be trusted? million customers.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019 ­– 39.7 million records leaked

IT Governance

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Ransomware.

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Schrems II – Irish DPC finally issues its decision – suspension order, deletion/ repatriation of data and fine

Data Protection Report

Introduction: On 22 May, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (the DPC ) published its decision against Meta Platform Ireland Ltd ( Meta Ireland ) in relation to Facebook’s transfer of user’s personal data to the US (the Decision ). within five months of the date of the Decision. The 2021 SCCs don’t remedy the situation.

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EDPB Issues Statement on U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

Hunton Privacy

On February 25, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) issued a statement regarding the transfer of personal data from Europe to the U.S. Enacted in 2010, FATCA requires that foreign financial institutions report information about financial accounts and assets held by their U.S. government.

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EU : New SCCs published

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Today, the European Commission published the final Implementing Decision on standard contractual clauses (“ New SCCs ”) for the transfer of personal data to third countries. ability to select the governing law and choice of jurisdiction of any Member State – this is helpful given the SCCs may cover multiple originating country transfers.

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Weekly podcast: Yahoo hacker sentenced, acoustic DoS attack and GDPR compliance fails

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. Twenty-three-year-old Karim Baratov, the hacker-for-hire who helped perpetrate the 2014 Yahoo data breach , was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment this week, and ordered to pay restitution to his victims and a fine encompassing his remaining assets. Acting U.S.

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