14/05/20 GDPR Community Round-Up

Here’s a round-up of interesting reading we found online today*;
A report has highlighted problems with critical security systems in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The cybersecurity of border controls carried out by the Dutch Royal Military Police at Schiphol is inadequate and not future-proof, according to a report.
EP wants data protection guaranteed before allowing fingerprint exchange with the UK As long as guarantees on reciprocity and data protection are not in place, Council should not allow fingerprint data exchange between the UK and EU countries, say MEPs. MEPs rejected the Council draft implementing decision on the exchange of fingerprints with the UK with 329 votes for, 357 against, and 4 abstentions.
New insight has calculated that a data breach could wipe as much as 7.2% off a company’s share price. It’s the equivalent of up to $8.8 million in cash terms for UK companies listed on the FTSE 100, or up to $32.3 million for listed US companies on the NASDAQ index. Calculated by iomart, the new figures also demonstrated the importance of finding data breaches quickly – on average it takes tech companies 187 days to identify a breach and 59 days to contain it. However, in other sectors, that number rises to 246 days to identify and contain.
*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.