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GDPR Security Pack
2024-02-27 16:00

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GDPR Consent Request Forms: Sample Text
2023-10-16 16:00

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation requires every organization that collects sensitive personal data from those residing in the EU to ask for clear and specific consent before collecting that data. Clicking the checkbox affirms your consent in granting us permission to use your personal data.

EU GDPR Compliance Checklist
2023-10-15 16:00

The EU General Data Protection Regulation is a comprehensive set of rules designed to keep the personal data of all EU citizens collected by any organization, enterprise or business safe from unauthorized access or use. Failure to do so, would be a costly oversight on their part, as the penalties associated with the GDPR are severe and are applied across international borders at the discretion of the EU data protection authorities.

GDPR Data Breach Notification Letter
2023-10-02 16:00

In the current business environment, it is almost inevitable that an organization will experience a security breach that exposes collected personal data to unauthorized access. Under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, regardless of the severity of the security breach, organizations must inform their EU customers and stakeholders of the incident in a timely manner.

Hiring kit: GDPR data protection compliance officer
2023-06-20 16:00

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Experts laud GDPR at five year milestone
2023-05-25 22:23

Fundamentally, the General Data Protection Regulation's right-to-privacy focus - giving people provenance over their data - allows individuals to dictate how companies, including data brokers, use their personally identifiable information. GDPR - a set of data privacy regulations throughout the European Union - has extra-territorial scope, meaning platforms and websites outside of the EU that traffic in the PII of those inside the EU must also comply with its directives.

UK's GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition
2023-05-19 09:34

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that oversight of facial recognition is a risk just as the policing minister plans to "Embed" it into the force. Sampson's job, if you were wondering, is to encourage "Compliance with the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice" - the only legal instrument that addresses police use of live facial recognition directly.

WhatsApp fined €5.5 million by Irish DPC for GDPR violation
2023-01-22 15:11

The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million after confirming that the messaging service violated the General Data Protection Regulation. On May 25, 2018, the DPC initiated an inquiry into a potential violation of the regulation by WhatsApp following a complaint from a German data subject.

Meta violates GDPR with non-compliant targeted ad practices, earns over $400 million in fines
2023-01-04 20:35

As of Wednesday, Jan. 4, Meta has once again been hit with a major GDPR violation, earning itself more than $400 million in fines for its latest data privacy misstep. In this report, we'll share what we know about Meta's latest violation, and we'll dive a little deeper into Meta's troubled past with GDPR. Fast facts about Meta's 2023 GDPR targeted ads violation.

Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR
2022-11-30 12:00

Facebook-Meta-was just fined $276 million for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location. Meta's total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over $700 million.