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Norway aims to become the world’s most digitized country
A new strategy from the government sets out clear goals for the “digital Norway of the future.”
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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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IMY and Swedish banks in GDPR project to reduce money laundering
The Swedish Data Protection Authority and four banks will investigate better information sharing to fight financial crime.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.
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13 million MediSecure customers’ data compromised in ransomware attack
Personal and sensitive information such as prescription medication details was stolen by a malicious actor in a ransomware attack earlier this year.
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TracFone to pay $16m to settle investigation of data protection failures
The Verizon owned company failed to keep customer data safe during three breaches.
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King’s Speech: What’s in the UK’s proposed Digital Information and Smart Data Bill?
The Bill will be a pivotal move in UK data protection, particularly in respect of digital verification service reforms.
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AT&T suffers data breach affecting 109 million customers
The data breach affected nearly all the company’s wireless customers, with the hackers exfiltrating records of customer call and text interactions.