The Commission has adopted today its adequacy decision on Japan, allowing personal data to flow freely between the two economies on the basis of strong protection guarantees. Before the Commission adopted its adequacy decision, Japan put in place additional safeguards to guarantee that data transferred from the EU enjoy protection guarantees in line with European … Read more
Facebook and other tech companies can now be forced in Australia to help make the encrypted messages of suspects readable. That is the purpose of a bill that has been adopted in the Australian Parliament. The law applies to Facebook (WhatsApp), but also to similar messaging services such as Signal and Telegram, writes Bloomberg. Companies … Read more
Data that Windows 10 Enterprise and Microsoft Office collects from and about users and stores in a database in the United States poses a risk to the privacy of users, according to research by the Ministry of Justice and Security. The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) which was executed on the ‘Windows 10 Enterprise’ and … Read more
Digital forensic examination revealed that an employee had an extensive history of visiting adult pornography websites. Many of the 9,000 web pages visited routed through websites that originated in Russia and contained malware. The analysis confirmed that many of the pornographic images were subsequently saved to an unauthorized USB device and personal Android cellphone connected … Read more
Twenty percent of Office 365 users who receive an e-mail with malicious link open this link within the first 5 minutes, according to Microsoft’s own research. The survey, in which billions of e-mails were analyzed, took place from January to September of 2018. According to researchers at Microsoft, 300.000 phishing campaigns were analyzed. 8 million … Read more
Denmark’s Data Protection Authority announced that it requires higher levels of protective measures for emails containing sensitive personal data. The use of email encryption is required starting at January 1, 2019 for these emails. Some types of personal information are more sensitive than others, and thus need more protection. These special categories of personal data … Read more
Bupa Insurance Services Limited (Bupa) has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to have effective security measures in place to protect customers’ personal information. Between 6 January and 11 March 2017, a Bupa employee was able to extract the personal information of 547,000 Bupa Global customers and offer it for … Read more
