A Risk Based Security report found that while reported data breaches declined by 48% in 2020, the volume of records exposed by these breaches increased 141%, the highest number since 2005, TechRepublic reports. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Marrio...

CBC News reports more than 4,000 websites, emails and applications posing as Canadian government entities have been identified and deleted over consumer protection concerns. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security removed the fraudulent accounts in recent months due to potential efforts to steal pers...

Guidance from the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office and the Netherlands' Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens limiting the response period for data subject requests "imposes unreasonable burdens on organizations in the midst of a large security breach," Morrison & Foerster Partner Alja Poler de Zwar...

Salinger Privacy looks back at a case in which Flight Centre was found to have disclosed the information of almost 7,000 individuals. Flight Centre held a "design jam" event in 2017 in the hopes of creating technical solutions to help travel agents better support customers. Participants were given a...

During large security breaches, organizations are often swamped with requests for access and information by concerned individuals (i.e., data subject requests) that are difficult to process in a timely manner while the organizations are investigating, remediating and handling various notification re...