The third anniversary of GDPR did not seem to bring good news as the recent research report revealed that only 42% of the UK’s company report their breach in 72 hours as per law. Whilst the NHS stirred privacy concerns when it decided to share data with third parties for research and planning.
Furthermore, Google is making privacy difficult for users. Read this and more in Seers Newsletter.
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National Health Service (NHS) the UK sharing patient’s data with the third party, fueling privacy concern:
National Health Service (NHS) will be shared with third parties, thus fueling privacy and security concerns.NHS will share data with the third parties to research and plan. Read more here
Alert Britons!! Monitoring your movement without your knowledge
The UK government recorded phone data to analyse people’s movement patterns without their consent and knowledge as part of a vaccination study. Read more here
ICO fines Amex £90,000 for sending over 4 million spam emails :
Information Commission Office UK has fined American Express (Amex) £90,000 for sending 4 million spam emails to customers within one year. Furthermore, 4,098,841 of those emails were marketing emails, encouraging customers to make purchases on their cards. Read more here
Privacy made difficult by Google:
Documents presented in the latest lawsuit against Google revealed that Google’s company executives and engineers were aware that search giant had made it difficult for users to keep their information private. Furthermore, Google gathered data even after the users had turned off location sharing. Read more here
CNIL issue 20 companies notice for their poor management of cookies
The president of CNIL has decided to issue notice to some twenty organisations for having practices contrary to the legislation on cookies. In April 2021, the CNIL had announced to initiate online checks to find possible breaches in terms of cookies. Read more here
Microsoft unplugging Internet Explorer:
Yes, Microsoft is shutting down its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, as it equips itself to battle against the market leader Google Chrome. Read more here
The UK violated the right to privacy.
GCHQ UK’s bulk surveillance program violated the “Right to Privacy the European Court of Human Rights ruled. Read more here
GDPR non-compliance: only two-fifths of the UK’ firm report Data breaches on time:
It seems like UK companies are least interested in following GDPR as the latest report by crowd strike revealed that the poll found that just 42% of UK firms that have been breached report the incident to the regulator within 72 hours, as required by GDPR. The security vendor polled the sample of 500 UK businesses between April 30th and May 10th to comprehend the GDPR compliance. Read more here
