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The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU’s highest court, has ruled that an operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘like’ button can be a data controller jointly with Facebook. What happened? The EU Court of Justice weighed in on a dispute after an online fashion retailer was accused of violating

Following an extensive investigation, the ICO has issued a notice of its intention to fine Marriott International £99,200,396 for data breach under the GDPR. The U.S. hotel group is the second firm to face a massive GDPR fine. Marriott notified the ICO of a cyber incident in November 2018. A variety of personal data contained

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m data breach of its security system. The GDPR imposes stiff fines on data controllers and processors for non-compliance. On the one hand a company can either be fined up to €10 million, or 2% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior financial year. On the

The ICO fined Greenwich University  £120,000 for failing to prevent  a serious data breach.  The breach disclosed the data of 19,500 students. This occurred due to a microsite developed by an academic and a student in the then-devolved University’s Computing and Mathematics School, to facilitate a training conference in 2004. The data included names, addresses, dates