- The European Central Bank (ECB) has closed its Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) website due to a data breach.
- UK Government sends confidential email about government no-deal preparations to wrong Sharma – Labour backbencher Virendra Sharma instead of International Development Secretary, Alok Sharma
- Irish Data Protection Commissioner published a damming report on Public Services Card – Irish PM concedes change will be required to meet data protection obligations. Helen Dixon explains the rationale in this interview.
- Interesting to see that the ICO has now updated their website to be transparent about why their guidance on the timescale for a subject access request has changed. Related to an EU case about veal calves.
- It is with the deepest regret that it was announced that Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor passed away surrounded by his family in Italy, on 20 August 2019.
- The Swedish DPA Datainspektionen has published its first GDPR monetary penalty – SEK 200.000 (~€18,500) for the disproportional use of facial recognition to register attendance at a school in Skellefteå.
- New Facebook privacy tool greeted with scepticism
- MERCEDES has sparked a privacy row by admitting it can spy on drivers with tracking devices covertly installed in its cars.
- Fieldfisher has made available all their recent webinars on YouTube.
- Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe), in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab, has released an updated version of their Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF 2.0).
- The Danish Data Protection Agency (DDPA) has seen a tremendous spike in cases being processed and expects to have to handle 20,000 cases this year – a quadrupling of the average 5,000 cases it usually processes annually. Also received about 1,000 reports of security breaches involving hackers gaining access to personal data.
- Danish regulator says university liable in medical video theft – casts more light on the controller/processor determination.
- UK football club Manchester City warned against using facial recognition on fans.
- EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition.
- Tech giants unite to launch data security consortium – Confidential Computing Consortium.
- German DPA released an audit checklist for GDPR readiness.
- Interesting reprimand issued by Guernsey DPA against Policy & Resources Committee for the health status of a member of staff in an email sent to several recipients.
- Data breach at Mastercard expands.
- Facebook is opening a café in London next week that will encourage privacy checks.
