France, the country known for great wine and good food, can now also be known for something else, heavy GDPR fines. Recently, France’s National Data Protection commission imposed a $57 Million (50 million euros) fine on Google for violating the GDPR regulations based on Google’s apparent inadequate privacy and data collection practices. The commission stated, “The amount decided, and the publicity of the fine is justified by the severity of…
State authorities of our most northern state, Alaska, just updated their initial notification from an estimate of only 501 individuals having their health department data breached to 700,000! This brings up two timely questions: 1. How could this have happened to our most sacred HIPAA data? 2. How could they call themselves authorities? Per a statement released by CynergisTek, “Alaska DHSS has a history of playing fast and loose with…