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Risk Management

EU privacy regulators expected to raise fines under GDPR data protection rules

Regulators in France, Germany and Austria levied the biggest fines so far, while the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. topped the list for the number of data breaches notified to their authorities, the survey by law firm DLA Piper found. France’s data protection commission, the CNIL, last January slapped Google with a 50 million-euro fine over transparency, information and consent failures.

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RBI issues new debit and credit card rules to improve security

RBI has directed banks and other card issuers to enable cards only for use at contact based points i.e. ATMs and Point of Sale (Pos) devices within India at the time of issue of the cards. This means that when a card is issued it will, by default, only be usable to physically swipe at a PoS or at a ATM. It would not be enabled for use online or for contact-less transactions.

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