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Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach

Security Affairs

These own-volition inquiries were launched by the DPC following a personal data breach, which was reported by MPIL in September 2018.” “This data breach impacted approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which approximately 3 million were based in the EU/EEA.

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New Zealand property management company leaks 30,000 users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data

Security Affairs

CyberNews reported the discovery of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data. This article puts the value of one passport scan at around $14 on the dark web , while another article puts a driver’s license value at about $20. What’s the impact? Pierluigi Paganini.

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GUEST ESSAY: How stricter data privacy laws have redefined the ‘filing’ of our personal data

The Last Watchdog

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) changed the game. Legacy filing systems were not built to keep track of the personal data of specific individuals primarily to be in compliance with the many data protection regulations popping up around the world.

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Personal data of thousands of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore exposed in bitcoin scam

Security Affairs

Further analysis of the URLs revealed that a short link takes a victim to another URL which already demonstrates their personal data, such as the phone number, first or/and last name, and sometimes an email address, and used for redirects to fake websites masquerading as a local media outlet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Irish Data Protection Commission fined LinkedIn €310M for GDPR infringement

Security Affairs

Irish Data Protection Commission fined LinkedIn €310M after finding its use of behavioral data for targeted ads violated privacy laws, requiring compliance changes. The DPC’s inquiry was launched following an initial complaint to the French Data Protection Authority. ” reads the DPC’s announcement.

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Indonesia Ratifies Country’s First Comprehensive Legal Framework for Personal Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

SHIFT Counsellors at Law reports from Indonesia that The People’s Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia has ratified Indonesia’s draft law on personal data protection. The law, which is partly modeled on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, is Indonesia’s first “umbrella regulation” on personal data protection.

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META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups

Security Affairs

Consumer groups assert that Meta is not adhering to various rules established by the European privacy regulation GDPR: Fair Processing (Article 5(1)(a)): Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. Consumer groups claim that Meta’s data collection is unfair and lacks transparency.

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