The Danish Data Protection Authority has once again expressed criticism of the Family Court for a lack of processing security, which has led to several cases of accidental disclosure of protected information and information about stays in crisis centres. The Family Court has reported 28 breaches of personal data security to the Danish Data Protection Authority in the period from 6 January 2023 to 30 June 2024. The breaches consist of the Family Court unjustifiably passing on information about protected…
Read moreCROATIAN SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Due to great interest, the ARC2 workshop “Organizational and technical measures in GDPR – access management and data protection” was held again
Due to the great interest, the Personal Data Protection Agency within the framework of the ARC2 project organized another free workshop with exercises: “Organizational and technical measures in the GDPR – access management and data protection, internal acts, contractual relations, fulfillment of data subjects’ rights – examples and exercises”, on Monday, December 11, 2023, at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZŠEM). Director Zdravko Vukić expressed his satisfaction that there is interest in holding such workshops: “Our experience has…
Read moreSWEDISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: the human factor behind the majority of accidents
The Personal Data Protection Authority, IMY, publishes now a report on notifications of personal data accidents received by the Authority during 2020. Errors caused by the human factor dominated and have caused more than half of reported accidents. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, asks companies, public authorities and other organization to notify some personal data accidents to IMY, ex Data Inspectorate. A similar obligation is mentioned in the Criminal Data Act for the police forces. IMY publishes today a…
Read moreAUSTRALIAN SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Human factor dominates latest data breach statistics
Data breaches attributed to human error continue to increase according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report. The OAIC received 539 data breach notifications from July to December 2020, an increase of 5% on the previous six months (512). Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said 38% of all data breaches notified during the period were attributed to human error. “In the past six months, we saw an increase in human error…
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