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European Data Protection Roundup: 2020 in Five Trends

Debevoise Data Blog

In this post, we look back at the 2020 European data protection landscape and five trends that help companies understand not only where we are, but where data protection enforcement, litigation, and practice may be headed. Second , enforcement goes far beyond data breaches and the GDPR. million, €43.7

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European Data Protection Roundup – August

Debevoise Data Blog

UK High Court dismisses most of the Dixons data breach claim What happened : The UK High Court dismissed various claims against DSG Retail Limited (“DSG”), the owner of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, relating to a 2017 – 2018 data breach where hackers accessed personal data in the company’s systems.

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Facebook fined €265Million for exposing PII of half a billion users!

Vogel IT Law

HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reported that “A user of the now-shuttered BreachForums in April 2021 posted a data set of 533 million Facebook profiles, including mobile numbers, email addresses and names scraped from the site in 2018 and 2019.” Facebook reported revenue of $23 billion in 2022 and $39 billion in 2021.

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Data Breach Report: The Good, The Bad, It is All Ugly

Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

As we’ve seen with the recent Equifax settlement, data breaches can have a huge impact on organizations and those individuals effected. The first heading of the report says it all, “2018 – Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” Data breaches were down 3.2 led with an estimated loss of $45 billion in 2018.

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

Percipient

Or it received a data request from a consumer under the GDPR or California Consumer Privacy Act. If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. ,

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What the Working Party might be Thinking about Discovery – WP 261 Derogations to the GDPR

Discovery Advocate

6, 2018, the Article 29 Working Party (Working Party 29) published Working Paper 261 (WP 261), which provided guidance on the provisions of Article 49 of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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A Guide to 5 Key Data Compliance Regulations for Legal Teams

MatterSuite

Why is Data Compliance Important? Failure to adhere to the security framework regarding data protection can lead to high fines and even court cases. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Europe introduced a data protection law, which is the GDPR, in 2018 for businesses handling personal and private personal information.