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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA“) issued its first GDPR-fine of EUR 460,000 or $515,936. The fine was imposed on the Dutch Haga Hospital for having an insufficient internal security of patient records.

Desjardins Group Chief Executive Guy Cormier said the credit union federation will offer free, permanent data protection to all its members in the wake of last month's data breach that affected 2.7 million individuals. 

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Washington Redskins held a joint tabletop exercise with local law enforcement and first responders to review and test plans to respond to a public safety emergency FedExField.

On October 1, 2017 a lone gunman fired down from the 32^nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, killings dozens of people attending a country music festival.

Sen. Chuck Schumer sent a letter to the FBI and the FTC expressing his concerns with FaceApp, a mobile software application headquartered in Russia that uses artificial intelligence to alter users' images to make them look younger or older.

Southern Manatee County Fire and Rescue with a drone manufacturer to test and fly drones to be used for emergency rescue operations. 

Seventy-two percent of respondents in a survey say they recycle passwords, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks. 

Despite the past year’s global focus on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data privacy regulations designed to give consumers more power over their data, more than half (55 percent) of respondents still don’t know how brands are using their data. 

The city council of Oakland, Calif. has voted to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology within its borders.