Frequent causes of data privacy violations and defensive measures

The data protection supervisory authority in Saxony-Anhalt has recently published a tabular overview of frequent data protection violations with corresponding defensive measures. The table is based on specific evaluations of data privacy violations reported to the data protection supervisory authority in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is gratifying to see that the data protection supervisory authority in Saxony-Anhalt specifies concrete defensive measures for each data protection violation, with which responsible parties can remedy the data protection violation. In addition, concrete defense measures are suggested as to how such data protection violations can be avoided in the future.

The tabular overview published by the data protection supervisory authority of Saxony-Anhalt, which is not dated, is two pages long.

This overview is available here.

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