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RTL Featured in CloudNine E-Discovery Blog

August 6, 2019

On July 16, Doug Austin of CloudNine featured the Ride the Lightning (RTL) post: “British Airways Faces Record Fine After Data Breach” in his own post. His blog post, “Move Over Google, Here May Be Your New Largest GDPR Fine: Data Privacy Trends” is featured in CloudNine’s eDiscovery Daily Blog. CloudNine is a legal intelligence technology company with deep expertise in the analysis, processing, and review of electronically stored information (ESI). Ride the Lightning is a cybersecurity and e-discovery blog by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.

Excerpt: Now, we’re talking some serious money!  In January, we covered the first big fine for failing to comply with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), issued a €50 million fine (about $56.8 million) fine to Google for failing to comply with GDPR.  Now, we have a new fine being proposed which is more than four times that amount.

As discussed by Sharon Nelson in her excellent Ride the Lightning blog (British Airways Faces Record Fine After Data Breach), the New York Times (subscription required) reported on July 8th that British authorities have said that they intend to order British Airways to pay a fine of nearly $230 million for a data breach last year, the largest penalty against a company for privacy lapses under GDPR.

Read the entire post here.