E.U. starts enforcing GDPR policies

British Airways faces a 230 million dollar fine after a website failure compromised the private details of approximately 500,000 customers. In a quote from the European Justice Comissioner:

“Of course we made it very serious that we enforce the GDPR rules because they bring a necessary protection for the citizens to have their privacy better protected.”

It could be the largest penalty yet under General Data Protection Regulation, which has been slow to adopt an enforcement policy.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office explained that weak security allowed user traffic to be redirected from the British Airways website to a fraudulent page beginning in June 2018.

Gita Shivarattan, a data protection counsel at law firm Ashurst, said “European data protection regulators are clearly ramping up fines for data breaches.”

The time has clearly come for companies to adopt clear data privacy strategies.

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