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Whistleblower Protection Act

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The Whistleblower Protection Act: regulations and obligations for companies, requirements for whistleblowers, white paper including checklist!

Smart Home Privacy Concerns

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Smart Home applications: Find out why the benefits in everyday life often involve data protection risks and how you can protect yourself.

Data protection and data security while working from home

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What do employers and employees need to be aware of? Concrete tips on data protection and advice on data security.

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Federal Council increased duty to appoint data protection officer to 20 persons

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On 20 September, the Federal Council decided that a company data protection officer only needs to be appointed if the number of employees exceeds 20.

11 months of GDPR: What are the main findings?

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In May 2018, the basic data protection regulation (DSGVO) came into force. The legal requirements of the DSGVO posed a challenge for many companies. This article summarizes the most important findings of the last 11 months with the DSGVO.

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Examples of GDPR fines: what happens in data protection

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GDPR infringements are punished with heavy fines. Find out which data protection infringements are suspected and secure yourself.

Data protection fine imposed on the Municipality of Oslo Education Authority

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120.000 € because the security of the app "Skolemelding" for communication between school staff, parents and pupils was not guaranteed.

Data protection fine Swedish company

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35,000 euros fine for violation of three Swedish laws at once. Information about creditworthiness published.

Highest data protection fine to date hits Delivery Hero

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In August, the Berlin data protection commissioner had already imposed the highest German fine to date, amounting to 195,407 euros.

Data protection fine for the City of Oslo

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EUR 50 000 fine for a serious infringement by the City of Oslo. Over a period of 11 years, patient data was incorrectly processed.

BfDI imposes fine on Rapidata GmbH

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No appointment of a data protection officer despite repeated requests. Expensive even for small companies.

BfDI imposes fine on telecommunications service provider

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1&1 Telecom GmbH has to pay a fine of EUR 9,550,000 for insufficient technical and organisational measures.

Data protection fine for hospital in Rhineland-Palatinate

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In addition to various data protection violations, one patient was confused when he was admitted to the hospital.

Fines imposed on public bodies in Belgium

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Data used without permission for election campaigns. You can read about why the Belgian supervisory authority punishes public bodies particularly severely in the article.

Data protection fine la Tribuna de Pamplona Spain

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The portal La Tribuna de Cartagena published information about a person who was the victim of a crime in 2018 without their consent.

Data protection fine due to revocation of consent

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To what extent did the company that was punished violate the DSGVO? What must be taken into account when revoking consent?

Million Euro fine against Deutsche Wohnen

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On 05.11.2019, the Berlin data protection authority imposed a fine in an unprecedented amount. Deutsche Wohnen is to pay 14.5 million euros.

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Examples of data breaches: what happens in data protection

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According to Art. 33 GDPR, data breaches must be reported to the supervisory authority. Examples of data breaches in data protection.

Data breach at Klarna: Third party data visible

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Entering a postcode and e-mail was sufficient to view third party data. The autofill function is to blame.

Data breach Microsoft customer records leaked

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In December 2019, 250 million support requests to Microsoft were available online for two days. Security researchers reported the data breach to Microsoft.

British government published private addresses of stars

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The British government publishes the addresses of around 1000 celebrities, politicians and private individuals who receive the traditional New Year's honours.

Data breach at Phoenix: sensitive data sent by pharmacies

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An employee unintentionally sent delivery and turnover data of 211 pharmacies by fax. Data protection officers were involved.

Data failure in the district office Coburg

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Allegedly deleted data on a hard drive came into circulation: Some 12,000 documents, e-mails and passwords were released.

Data breach employees fashion house H&M

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The Swedish fashion house H&M is accused of having sounded out its employees. This also involved sensitive health data.

Data breakdown frequent flyer programme Miles & More

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Lufthansa's frequent flyer programme confirms data breakdown. Thousands of users had access to foreign profiles.

Data breach patient data sent to wrong recipient

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Nationwide NDR survey revealed that patient data is sent to the wrong recipients. Now data protection is threatened with a fine.

Data breach in medical practice: patient data online

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Patient data of a medical practice publicly accessible for several months. The reason was a weakness of the router used.

Data breach at UniCredit

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The Italian bank UniCredit is the victim of a hacker attack. Around three million names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers were captured.

Data breach at Adobe

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Due to a security vulnerability, 7.5 million data of users of the Creative Cloud were publicly accessible. Read what you should be aware of now.

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