Produce company Dole announced employee data was stolen in a ransomware attack in February, InfoSecurity Magazine reports. The Ireland-based company has approximately 38,000 employees working in 30 countries. Citing U.S.
The EU is seeking recognition of the bloc's digital regulations globally via the United Nation’s Global Digital Compact, Euractiv reports. The U.N. initiative aims to establish shared digital principles on a global scale.
The value of consumer data privacy is based on evolving awareness to technology along with social and cultural norms. The IAPP’s first-ever "Privacy and Consumer Trust" report shines a global light on what consumers think about privacy and the companies that collect, store and use their data. The report answers high-level questions concerning how people around the world think and feel about their privacy and general reactions to industry privacy practices.
Bloomberg reports Big Tech companies, including Google, Meta and Apple, are lobbying for consideration of data access limitations if Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is reauthorized by U.S. Congress. Current Section 702 provisions allow U.S. intelligence agencies to parse and collect personal data from individuals' online and mobile communications.
Fifteen European governments provided formal comments on a draft law combatting child sexual abuse material, citing end-to-end encryption and data retention as significant points of concern, Euractiv reports. Germany asked for additional text stating technologies that "disrupt, weaken, circumvent or modify encryption" will not be used, while Estonia, Italy and Slovakia highlighted data retention.
Norway's data protection authority, the Datatilsynet, fined U.S.-based Argon Medical Devices 2.5 million kroner for failing to report a July 2021 data breach within the 72-hour deadline required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
European privacy rights group NOYB lodged a complaint with the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information alleging multiple German political parties engaged in microtargeting of voters on Facebook during the 2021 campaign, Euractiv reports. While the EU General Data Protection Regulation does not expressly ban "microtargeting," it does prohibit processing individuals’ sensitive personal data, including one’s political opinions.
Google seeks the dismissal of a U.K. lawsuit in London's High Court alleging it mishandled the medical records of 1.6 million patients, Reuters reports. In 2015, the Royal Free London National Health Service Trust transferred patient records to Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind Technologies, which was developing an app to analyze records "and detect acute kidney injuries." In 2017, the U.K.