03/08/20 GDPR Community Round-Up

Here’s a round-up of interesting reading we found online today*;

• Update, "BA expects to pay just £20m for a data breach. The airline anticipates its fine will be written down by as much as 90pc from its initial £183m".

• Breach Update, "Havenly discloses data breach after 1.3M accounts leaked online"

• Breach Update, "Crypto hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger experiences a massive data breach".Opinion, "Quantum Computing: Why the technology poses a security threat".

• News, "The U.S. and EU’s key data-protection deal is dead. How one of the world’s biggest data brokers is adapting".

• News, "Microsoft and TikTok talks continue after Trump call".

• Insight, "Why patients need access to global data: a patient’s view".

• Report, "More data breaches from ransomware attacks in Australia. The number of data breaches caused by ransomware rose to 33 in the first half of 2020 from 13 in the previous six-month period, according to the latest report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner".

• News, "Data Protection Law supports data centre localisation in Egypt".

• News, "Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak"

*These sites aren’t affiliated with GDPR Community and these aren’t an advertisement, they’re simply site’s we’ve thought the community might have an interest in reading.