A 19-year-old Hong Kong resident has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for accessing the server of his former employer and deleting computer records, according to a report by Newsbytes.
Meanwhile, ZDNet reports that six members of a French warez group have been fined €40,000 and sentenced to prison terms of up to six months. Between 1996 and 2000, the group were selling pirated software on the internet.
Businesses have been urged to recognise the human impact that personal data breaches can have in the way they communicate with people affected by such incidents.
Mining operators and service providers need to comply with the new ‘local content’ requirements in the Republic of Mali. Failure to do so will mean companies will not be able to participate in the West African country’s mining industry in the future.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined LinkedIn for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when processing personal data of its registered users for marketing and analytic purposes.
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