Britain's communications regulator has opened an investigation into whether Meta failed to carry out required safety assessments before introducing Instagram Instants, a feature that allows users to share photos and videos that disappear after being viewed.
Hackers used a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence agent to attack some of South Korea’s largest banks and steal personal information belonging to 68,000 people, according to The Wall Street Journal, in an intrusion now under investigation by the country’s national police.
We have all done it. You are at an airport waiting for a flight. Your train journey is going to take another two hours. You have just checked into a hotel, or perhaps you are sitting in a café trying to get some work done. Your mobile signal isn't great, so you look at the available networks and see exactly what you need: free Wi-Fi.
BaFin President Mark Branson used a keynote speech to signal a strategic recalibration of German financial supervision toward greater proportionality, simplified rules, and faster, risk-focused intervention, particularly for troubled institutions. Compliance teams should note the emphasis on governance and risk culture over pure quantitative metrics, as well as expanded supervisory resources in cybersecurity, AML, conduct supervision, and forensic investigations. This signals heightened scrutiny of firms with weak governance structures, dominant management figures, or non-core business activities.
The Data Protection Commission has fined the Health Service Executive EUR 645,000 following an inquiry into systemic failures in the storage and retention of paper records containing sensitive medical data, triggered by two 2023 breach notifications. The decision underscores that GDPR security and storage-limitation obligations apply equally to physical records as to digital systems, and highlights breach notification and data subject communication failures as separately sanctionable infringements. Compliance teams, especially in healthcare and other sectors managing legacy paper archives, should treat this as a warning to audit offsite and legacy storage facilities.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has completed its mandatory GDPR Article 36(4) legislative review of the draft Data Governance Regulation Implementation Regulation and raised no objections. This clears a key regulatory checkpoint for the decree's progression, signaling that the Dutch government's approach to implementing the EU Data Governance Regulation aligns with GDPR principles and fundamental rights protections.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) reviewed a draft regulation on the Smoking Cessation Programme Scheme and identified a single but significant deficiency: the draft fails to specify which categories of personal data healthcare providers must exchange when declaring mutually provided services. This matters for compliance teams because it reinforces the DPA's consistent expectation that any legal basis permitting data sharing, particularly data touching on health information, must meet strict legal certainty standards under GDPR.
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