On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. This claim was against the Sun alone. Her statement in…
Category: Breaches
Ex-hospital employee’s unauthorized access to patient info leaves genuine questions of fact, COA rules
Katie Stancombe reports: A hospital group and its former employee at odds over her unauthorized access of confidential patient records aren’t quite finished with their legal battle, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday. For nearly two years, former Franciscan Alliance employee Christina A. Padgett accessed a specific patient’s confidential protected health information in…
NZ: December 2021 Insights Report – Privacy Breach Reporting
One year after the Privacy Act 2020 took effect in New Zealand, this report investigates the impact of mandatory privacy breach reporting. Unsurprisingly, breach reporting increased significantly, although currently less than half of entities do report within the mandatory 72 hours timeframe: From 1 December 2020 it became mandatory to notify the Office of the…
Ie: Irish Regulator Submits Draft Decision on Instagram’s Use of Children’s Data
Robert Bateman reports: The Irish data regulator has submitted a draft decision about Instagram’s user registration process to other EU data protection authorities, bringing the total number of ongoing Irish investigations into Meta (formerly Facebook) companies to three. In a 7 Dec. news release on its website, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said it was submitting the…