09/07/20 GDPR Community Round-Up

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

• News, "Law enforcement agencies are using a legal loophole to buy up personal data exposed by hackers"

• Breach update, "Swvl reveals security breach; names, email addresses and phone numbers of customers accessed by unauthorized party".

• Breach update, "US Secret Service reports an increase in hacked managed service providers (MSPs). US Secret Service says hackers are breaching MSPs to orchestrate ransomware attacks, point-of-sale intrusions, and business email compromise (BEC) scams".

• Update, "CCPA enforcement has begun: Here’s what to expect. The US’s California Consumer Privacy Act came into force in January this year, but enforcement against technology companies did not begin until this month".

• Opinion, "Big Tech Companies Should Pay for Your Data, Says Andrew Yang. His new Data Dividend Project pushes for big tech users to receive a commission for generating data, and proposes legal guidelines that would be applicable throughout the country".

• Insight, "In cannabis industry, profitability and data security go hand-in-hand. The business of legalized cannabis has cybersecurity and data privacy challenges unlike those confronting other industries".

• Report, "The 10 Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2020, So Far. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, phishing campaigns, mishandled health record disposals, and sophisticated cyberattacks are behind some of the biggest healthcare data breaches of 2020".

• Report, "Majority of firms concerned about public cloud security, most have suffered breach. Some 96% of organisations are worried about the current state of their public cloud security, with 70% admitting they experienced a breach over the past year including 93% in India, which is the highest worldwide, 74% in Australia, and 71% in Singapore".

• Insight, "Billions of account details sold online: five tips to protect yourself and your data From creating unique passwords to spotting scam calls, Which? explains how to protect yourself when your data has been breached"

• Report, "Dutch DPA Releases 2019 Annual Report"

• News, "A week from Thursday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hand down a decision in a critical, Irish-originating case that could potentially upend – even, immediately halt – the way in which European and US businesses currently handle transatlantic data transfers".

• Update, "German Data Protection Authorities Say Emails Must Be Encrypted"

*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.