This report comes to us from Gonzalo Gallego a partner in the Hogan Lovells privacy practice resident in Madrid: Spain has a new penalty regime for violations of privacy, with many minimum and maximum fines lowered. This is viewed as a business-friendly development at a time when the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“SPDA” or “Agency”) has earned a…
Category: Breaches
UK: Anglesey council bids to curb access to sensitive data
A local authority is to consider curbing unrestricted access by councillors and officers to parts of its headquarters. Anglesey council is worried about access to confidential data in its housing, social services, finance and legal services departments. The council’s authority’s standards committee will examine a report on the matter on Wednesday. Read more on BBC….
Privacy blunders: good for innovation?
Rhonda Callow responds to a statement made by Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media last year in a blog post he wrote entitled My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy. At the time, O’Reilly wrote, in part: “But let’s not make privacy a third rail issue, pillorying any company that makes a mistake on the privacy…
A Novel Data Security Law Proposed in Colorado
David Navetta discusses a proposed law in Colorado, HB 11-1225: Regulation is achieved via the “carrot” or the “stick” (and sometimes both). This is true in the information security context as well. For example, to incentivize encryption of personal information, breach notice laws use a stick: those that fail to encrypt may have to provide…