On 12 May 2020,German Data Protection Conference ('DSK') issued guidelines on the use of Google Analytics in the non-public sector ('the Guidelines'). The guidelines have been issued in consequence of the DSK's decision that Google Analytics is not a Data Processor but a Data Controller or Joint Data Controller. Google Analytics contended that the data [...]
On 28th May 2020, Ireland's Revenue Commissioner released a statement confirming a personal data breach. Ireland's taxation authority declared on its website that unidentified fraudsters had accessed personal data of thousands of taxpayers as a result of an SMS text messaging scam. Around 3,000 taxpayers were in receipt of a text message carrying a link [...]
On 19th May, 2020, Easyjet, a budget airline based in UK, published a statement announcing that it had "been the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source” and had suffered a data breach as a result. The airline company admitted that the data breach affects approximately 9 million customers. Investigation revealed that details [...]
