June

The Polish Ministry on Digital Affairs has published a new draft personal data protection act that will accompany the entry of the EU General Data Protection Regulation in Poland.
 
The draft has not been finalized and will be put out to public consultation. The major changes mostly concern procedural aspects of proceedings carried out by the Polish data protection authority aimed at providing effective legal tools.
 
Other suggested changes include new powers of the Polish DPA, changes to administrative fines versus civil claims, new powers that will require data controllers and data processors to be always ready for inspection and the fact that information security administrators that are active on May 24, 2018, will act as data protection officers until September 1, 2018.

One in five employers has rejected a prospective job candidate because of something they have seen in their online activity, claims new research from YouGov Omnibus.
 
The most common reasons for candidates being turned down from a job opportunity were for aggressive or offensive language - 75 percent said this would discourage them from hiring someone.
 
More than 70 percent of employers would be put off by references to drug use, while more than half would consider not hiring someone because of bad spelling and grammar.
 
Other reasons included photos of drunk behavior (47 percent), political views|activity (29 percent), general over-sharing of content (29 percent), and vanity (26 percent).
 
LinkedIn profiles are the most popular website for checking job candidates, with almost half of surveyed employers using the platform to screen potential employees, while 46 percent look at Facebook and 28 percent view Twitter.

According to Kroll's Global Fraud and Risk Report, fraud incidents have risen by 16 percent over the last year, with 90 percent of respondents saying they experienced a cyber incident during the period.
 
The global fraud average stands at 82 percent. The most common types of fraud in the UK were theft of physical assets and the misappropriation of funds, with most fraudsters coming from inside the company. Almost half (41 percent) of executives said that junior employees were the biggest threat, followed by senior or middle management employees (32 percent) and ex-employees (30 percent).
 
Alongside fraud, the UK was also named as the country with the second highest rate of cyber incidents, with 92 percent of executives saying they had experienced an attack or information loss in the last year, compared with the global average of 85 percent.