GDPR

More than ten million files of hotel booking details were visible on a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. The data was managed by Prestige Software, a Spanish company that collaborates with, among others, Agoda, Booking.com and Expedia.Website…

The British Information Commissioner's Office fines hotel chain Marriott of £ 18.4 million, equivalent to EUR 20.5 million. Marriott had not done enough to secure a system when it had a massive data breach, according to the ICO.After an…

Spotify still makes it possible to export music and transfer it to other services. The company has adjusted the general terms and conditions for developers for this. Previously, the service just removed the feature. The new terms of service…

Dutch hospitals and healthcare institutions are increasingly testing their own staff for corona, but that may be in violation of the privacy law. The Dutch Data Protection Authority warns that testing personnel is not allowed just like…

Simple Machines Forum is open source forum software. The developers are working on the next milestone, version 2.1, and have released the third release candidate. The package requires at least version 5.4.0 of php and as a database at…

MobileIron Core focuses on MDM, managing devices, and MAM, managing applications on these devices. Nowadays you can also place this under enterprise mobility management, emm for short. In addition, MobileIron Core can be combined with…

Clothing chain H&M has to pay a fine of 35 million euros in Germany for violating the privacy of its staff. The violations took place since 2014, but continued until after the GDPR came into effect. The retailer kept detailed…

The Irish privacy watchdog has to temporarily stop investigating the transfer of data from European citizens to the United States by the Irish court. This would give Facebook time to appeal the privacy watchdog's decision.It was…

Rumors have it that Apple will soon release its own credit card outside of the United States. That should happen before the end of the year, whereby a European release does not seem out of the question.The rumors come from MacRumors, who…

The requirement for existing users of Oculus headsets to log in with a Facebook account may be illegal under the GDPR, a German regulator said. Oculus has temporarily stopped selling headsets in Germany.The regulator, the Hamburg Data…