A Swiss bank is investigating an incident involving a former employee who may have misused client data by allegedly sharing it with German authorities investigating tax evaders, CITY A.M. reports. The suspect had been sacked by the company for the data breach, the report states.
Full Story
shareShare This
Related Stories
Draft ICO report finds gaps in Google's Privacy Sandbox
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found Google's proposed third-party cookie replacement, the Privacy Sandbox, needs to better protect users' personal data, according to ICO draft documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal. A review of the the ICO report found, as presently constituted, ...
European Commission issues guidance on Data Act
The European Commission published an overview of the Data Act. The law raises rules on who can access and use data generated in the EU across all economic sectors while establishing the conditions upon which public sector entities can obtain request data from businesses "where there is an exceptiona...
Italy, Germany DPAs to meet for two-day summit
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, and Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information will meet for a two-day summit 19-20 April to discuss age verification systems, artificial intelligence and pay-or-consent models.Full story...
UN agency suffers ransomware attack
A significant amount of U.N. Development Programme data related to its staff and internal operations was stolen in a ransomware attack, CyberScoop reports. While the agency did not detail what types of data was stolen, hackers reportedly were able to "access a number of servers" that contained "a la...
Examining Eurodac's expanded biometric data collection
The European Parliament passed amendments expanding Eurodac, previously a fingerprint database, to now allow for the biometric data collection from migrants to Europe for up to 10 years and sharing among police and border officials. On a recent episode of Euractiv's "The Tech Brief" podcast, Europea...
Comments
If you want to comment on this post, you need to login.