Safe Harbour successor agreed – but will it actually change anything?
Hot on the heels of the General Data Protection Regulation’s approval last week, an agreement has been reached between the EU and the US for transatlantic data flow. The EU-US Privacy Shield will replace Safe Harbour, the law which allowed the transfer of data from the EU to the US until it was ruled invalid […]
Hochtief AG admits to insider trading contravention
ASIC has started legal action in the Federal Court of Australia against German construction group holding company Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft (Hochtief AG), seeking a declaration of contravention and a financial penalty order against the company for insider trading. ASIC’s action centres on the early 2014 on-market acquisition of ordinary shares of Leighton Holdings Limited (now called […]
ICO releases data privacy assessment tool for SMEs
With the number of high profile examples of big businesses being targeted by cyber criminals, it’d be easy for small and medium-sized enterprises to overlook their own vulnerabilities. Many SMEs possess customer databases to rival those of larger businesses, but tend to lack the security infrastructure to match – making them highly valuable targets for […]