Hefty GDPR fine for Meta
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been fined €265 million (about $275 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (Commission) following an inquiry that commenced in April, 2021.
Privacy
The Digital Implementation Act: problems and criticisms – appropriate purposes
Canada is planning to revamp its comprehensive privacy law by repealing the existing comprehensive privacy law, PIPEDA, and by enacting Bill C-27, the Digital Implementation Act (“DIA”) to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (PIDTA), and Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA).
2022 report: More data breaches and costs rising
IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 (IBM Report) was recently released, and suggests that the cost of data breaches continued to rise to an all-time high—in fact, the average total cost of a data breach was USD 4.35 million in the past year of the study (March 2021–March 2022).
