by Flowz | Apr 17, 2019 | Recent Breach
Bounty, the pregnancy and parenting club, has been fined £400,000 for illegally sharing personal information belonging to more than 14 million people. The Information Commissioner’s Office found Bounty had breached the Data Protection Act by sharing 34.4 million...
by Flowz | Apr 11, 2019 | GDPR Blog
GDPR – Six key stages of the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)The DPIA is one of the specific processes mandated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Organisations must carry out a DPIA where a planned or existing processing operation –“is likely...
by Flowz | Apr 5, 2019 | Recent Breach
As many as 6,600 customers of online contact lens shop Vision Direct are at risk of having their personal details, including financial information, stolen in a November data breach. A total of 16,300 people were thought to be at risk of the breach, although 9,700 of...
by Flowz | Mar 26, 2019 | Recent Breach
As many as 500 million customers of hotel giant Marriott may have had their personal data compromised, and for an undisclosed number that could have include payment card numbers and expiry dates. The hotel chain said that those card numbers were encrypted with...
by Flowz | Mar 26, 2019 | GDPR Blog
Unless businesses want to be on the front page; consumer trust in data privacy is essential. GDPR introduces the key principles of data privacy by design and default. Consumers and business are recognising that data privacy is more than just data protection and...