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Information Law weekly highlights—18 January 2018

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Published on: 18 January 2018

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Cybersecurity
Cyber crimes showed increasing complexity in 2017
Foreign & Commonwealth Office invites project proposals for international cyber security capacity building programme
Data protection
Information Commissioner’s Office issues fines for data protection breaches
European Commission reminds stakeholders of data protection considerations upon UK's EU exit
Patient data to be shared between EU Member States under new data exchange scheme
State security and intelligence
Europol and Facebook cooperate to fight online terrorist propaganda
Reputation management

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Information Law highlights includes: a look at the new e-privacy regulation, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security’s report on cyber crime, and selected updates on ICO enforcement.

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