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Data breaches grow across UK education sector

IT Governance

A recent freedom of information request by chartered accountants UHY Hacker Young reveals a worrying rise in reported data breaches across the UK education sector. The highest number of breaches in 2016-17. In 2016–17, UK schools reported the highest number of breaches (703) across the sector, an increase of 4% on the previous year.

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Italian Garante Fines Bank 600,000 Euros for Pre-GDPR Data Breach

Hunton Privacy

The Italian Data Protection Authority ( Garante per la protezione dei dati personali , “Garante”) recently announced that it levied a €600,000 fine on banking institution UniCredit for several violations of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code, in its pre-General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) form.

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eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Now, Tom has written a terrific informational overview on Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) titled eDiscovery and the GDPR: Ready or Not, Here it Comes. Part One: What is the GDPR? Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to take effect in less than 200 days. Here’s the first part.

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ICO data security statistics highlight need for increased staff awareness

IT Governance

This is an astonishing 41% rise on the same period in 2016. The reasons are thought to be growing awareness of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the launch of the ICO’s personal data breach helpline. In the education sector, there was a 68% increase, from 57 reported incidents in Q2 to 96 in Q3.

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Today is the Day to “Master” Your Knowledge of eDiscovery in Washington DC for 2018: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

It’s almost two days of educational sessions covering a wide range of topics! This year’s Washington DC event includes nearly two days of educational sessions covers topics ranging from privacy to cybersecurity to social media to cloud computing. GDPR, blockchain and big data are also significant topics for the event.

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ICO Release Annual Report

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The ICO has been involved in producing significant GDPR guidance in the last 12 months and has also run an internal change management process to ensure it is up to the demands placed upon it by GDPR (think: extra staff, new breach reporting functions and helplines). The ICO has produced a Guide to GDPR – definitely worth a read.

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Germany Finds that Facebook’s Privacy Settings and Terms of Service Violate Their Privacy Rules: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

One of the things that Tom O’Connor and I discussed in last week’s webcast about the upcoming Europe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was how consent will be interpreted for use of data for its data subjects. EU Directive 95/46/EC will be replaced by GDPR on May 25th.

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