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Podcast: Alice Wallbank from Shoosmiths on data privacy and cyber security issues
We spoke about: CrowdStrike outage, Ashley Madison data breach, prevalence of cyberattacks, government oversight and regulation.
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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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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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Norwegian university fined for GDPR violations when using Microsoft Teams
Around 16,000 registered users connected to the university were affected, included Ukrainian refugees.
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Irish data watchdog reveals 20% increase in data cases handled in 2023
The DPC reports a busy year with increasing cases and GDPR breaches, and a record fine on Meta.
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Are data processors really immune from data protection fines under GDPR?
When do regulators choose to go after data processors instead of data controllers?
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Amazon France Logistique fined €32m for intrusive employee monitoring
CNIL found that the company’s monitoring and data collection were disproportionate and excessively intrusive.
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Using data protection to counter bias in generative AI
Practical steps to mitigate against bias and hallucinations when using and developing AI models.