Sunday 26 January 2014

EU calls for much bigger fines for data breaches

The European Commission, wants far tougher laws that would introduce fines of up to 5% of the global annual turnover of a company for data breaches.
Viviane Reding dismissed recent fines for Google as "pocket money" and said the firm would have had to pay $1bn under her plans for privacy failings.

Ms Reding said such punishments were necessary to ensure firms took the use of personal data seriously.

And she questioned how Google was able to take so long to getting round to changing its policy.
"Is it surprising to anyone that two whole years after the case emerged, it is still unclear whether Google will amend its privacy policy or not?" she said in a speech.

Watch out Google and Facebook... Viviane Reding is coming for you, get out the Cheque book!!!

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