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Europe Data Protection Digest | DPA: Individuals must be notified of unauthorized data disclosures Related reading: Evolving privacy law 'exciting' for IAPP Westin Scholar

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Following a string of cases involving the unauthorized disclosure of personal health data, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority will now require companies to alert individuals who have had personal data disclosed without consent, Bloomberg BNA reports. Norwegian law never specified whether people had the right to be notified of data breaches, but the health data incidents heard by Norway’s Privacy Appeals Board brought the new practices to life. While the country has regulations to disclose privacy breaches, they did not have any ruling on what happens when the information has been sent to an unauthorized party. DPA Senior Advisor Eirin Oda Lauvset said, “Neither of the provisions alone provides the data subject with a clear right to be informed if his or her information has been disclosed to someone who is unauthorized.”
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