The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided to impose administrative fines totaling €405 million on Meta Platforms Ireland due to Instagram’s failure to implement privacy-by-default settings for child users of the social network. In addition, the DPC also imposed a reprimand and an order requiring Meta Platforms to bring its processing into compliance within three months.

The administrative fine was ...

Albania has severed its diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran and ordered the Iranian embassy staff to leave the country, accusing the theocracy of perpetrating a cyber-attack against Albania.

Albania’s prime minister said that the cyber-attack attempted to cripple public services, destroy and steal government data and bring about turmoil. The prime minister indicated "irrefutable evidence" that Iran ...

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority has rigidified its published policy on data breach notifications, emphasizing that it now requires that “immediate” notification be given upon the discovery, or reasonably suspected occurrence, of a serious information security incident.

According to the Protection of Privacy Regulations (Information Security) from 2017, a controller or processor with a database subject to a high or ...