Sure there have been hearings and the verbal flaying of executives, but there is nary a sign of a universal data breach legislation on the horizon.
Universal sued for breach of contract; Garner countered with a $22.5m suit; Universal settled years later for an undisclosed multimillion sum.
"They are inept," said one angry Universal executive, who said Universal has considered suing for breach of the terms of the deal that had been in place.
Another major change under GDPR relates to security incidents — aka data breaches (something else we've seen an awful, awful lot of in recent years) — with the regulation doing what the US still hasn't been able to: Bringing in a universal standard for data breach disclosures.
For this atonement, on which hinges the Christian hope of salvation, Northern Renaissance art found the painfully intimate metaphor of the Father's hand on the groin of the Son, breaching a universal taboo as the fittest symbol of reconcilement".
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 are paramount in this regard, providing in unmistakable terms for universal jurisdiction over grave breaches of those Conventions.
If you can detain hundreds of people in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you probably believe that you can do what you damn well like.
If there is no global response to this breaching of a universal taboo on using poison gas, the world will be a much more dangerous place.
While the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 encouraged data controllers to disclose serious data breaches, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (transposed into national law in the UK via the DPA 2018) goes much further, putting in place a universal obligation to report serious breaches of personal data within 72 hours of becoming aware of an incident.
In 2008, Bravo parent company NBC Universal sued the Weinstein brothers for breach of contract, claiming it had been denied the right of first refusal to keep the Emmy- and Peabody-winning show on one of its networks.
