Enzo BioChem, a testing lab company, was found negligent by the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, which together fined the company $4.5 million. The finding was that poor data security practice by the company enabled a ransomware attack and a data breach of records of ~2.4 million patients.
Regulators from the Netherlands and France have announced they were fining Uber €290 million (~$324 million) for GDPR violation with drivers’ data that was transferred to the U.S. The data, which included locations, taxi licenses, payment details and in some cases even criminal and medical data, was relayed to servers in the United States.
Botswana has introduced a Data Protection Bill in an effort to address privacy violations while its Data Protection Act (DPA) awaits full implementation. The Bill provides amendments to the DPA, including extending the application of the Act to the state and to data controllers outside the country.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.