Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, released a free tool to help data controllers determine whether to notify individuals who have been affected by a data breach based on criteria under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Data controllers can fill o...

Brazil's Senate approved President Jair Bolsonaro's five nominations to the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados's board of directors. Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Junior will serve a six-year term as the DPA's president. Arthur Pereira Sabbat, Miriam Wimmer, CIPP/E, Nairane Farias Rabelo Leitão a...

In a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, Republican members of the House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Reform expressed concerns about a data breach that exposed personal details of 46,000 veterans, The Hill reports. Requesting a staff-level briefing about the VA’s r...

In this week's global legislative roundup, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office handed down its stiffest fine to date. The European Data Protection Board addressed simplifying the EU General Data Protection Regulation's dispute-resolution mechanism. Brazil nominated a board of directors for it...

New Zealand's Office of the Privacy Commissioner announced the launch of NotifyUs, a tool aimed at allowing organizations to understand whether a privacy breach is notifiable. "We want the privacy breach pre-assessment and reporting process to be straightforward," Privacy Commissioner John Edwards s...