04/07/20 GDPR Community Round-Up

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

• Inisght, "How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime. Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots".

• News, "BMW customer database for sale on dark web".

• Insight, "How Have I Been Pwned became the keeper of the internet's biggest data breaches".

• News, "Facebook flaw let 5,000 developers gather personal data".

• News, "Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked".

• Report, "Cambridgeshire crowned UK's 'data breach capital'. While offences surged by 49% in Cambridgeshire, Thames Valley recorded the highest absolute number of cases".

• Insight, "Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and Implications".

• Insight, "Debate Over Health Data on Fitness Devices Escalates as Google-Fitbit Merger Faces Scrutiny".

• Update, "Chinese law may require companies to disclose cyber-security preparations outside China. Companies with Chinese operations may have to disclose information about the security of their networks in other countries under China’s draft data security law".

*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.