On November 4, 2020, Vincent Pitaro of the Cybersecurity Law Report published: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Incident Response and Breach Notification. The article summarises a panel discussion at…
October was a particularly busy month, with headline-grabbing stories such as the long-awaited finalisation of the fines against British Airways and Marriott, which may well be the last penalties the…
Hot on the heels of British Airways’ £20m fine (covered here), the UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Marriott £18.4m for alleged data security failings linked to the breach of…
Earlier this month, the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill was read for the first time in Singapore’s Parliament. As we reported previously, in May 2020, Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and…
In a long-awaited final decision, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has issued a fine of £20m to British Airways (“BA”) following a data breach that took place in…
Earlier this year, we shared a list of 13 technical and nontechnical measures companies can adopt to mitigate the risks of ransomware attacks. With ransomware and other malicious cyber-related attacks…
Throughout September, companies, regulators and policymakers have continued to respond to the fallout from Schrems II. Since our last update we have also seen the second largest fine to date…
We have recently written about the persistence of the three most common cyber attacks: Ransomware, Phishing and Business Email Compromises (BECs), and the increased regulatory scrutiny that companies face when they…
August proved to be another busy month for data protection developments in Europe, fuelled in part by the aftermath of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (“CJEU”) decision…
We’ve noticed that people seemed more determined than usual this year to really unplug during their vacations. That was no doubt a healthy reaction to months of pandemic-related stress. For…