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Several customers of the application Mercedes-Me got temporarily the data of other users displayed. Only customers from the USA were affected.

Shortly after the ruling of the European Court of Justice, the Spanish regulatory authority imposed the first fine on the airline Vueling.

The Greek data protection authority has imposed a fine of EUR 200 000 on the telecommunications operator OTE.

The cause is the failure of computer programs. No personal data has been passed on to third parties, the data protection commissioner of the state of Saxony-Anhalt has been informed.

Judgement of the European Court of Justice strengthens consumer rights: Cookies only with voluntary active consent.

In front of the Düsseldorf airport train station several boxes of files were found, which contained data of employees and passengers.

On 20 September, the Federal Council decided that a company data protection officer only needs to be appointed if the number of employees exceeds 20.

Microsoft Office 365 is questionable from a data protection perspective. Recently, its use in schools has been under criticism. What you need to consider when using it to avoid high data protection risks can be found in the article.

Police officer confuses e-mail address with press distribution list and sends to 158 media representatives at the request of a private individual.

Personal data of 17 million people from Ecuador published online on servers of Elasticsearch Also included was information about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.