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January 15, 2021

High Court dismisses claim where DSAR regime abused

Where those requests are repetitive, numerous, and the real purpose is to obtain documents and not data, businesses might reasonably resist civil claims raising similar factual issues.

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January 12, 2021

German DPA fines company 10.4 million euros for monitoring employees without legal basis

The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 10.4 million euros on notebooksbilliger.de AG.

January 12, 2021

FTC Orders Photo App to Delete Algorithms Built on Personal Data

The proposed order requires the company to delete the facial recognition technologies it illegally developed using the photos and videos uploaded by its users.

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January 12, 2021

Experian warns of facial recognition, synthetic ID fraud

The widespread shift to e-commerce and touchless payments has escalated fraud risk, including the possibility of fraudsters combining altered photos with synthetic ID.

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January 12, 2021

Council of the EU Released a New Draft of the ePrivacy Regulation

On January 5, 2021, the Council of the European Union released a new, draft version of the ePrivacy Regulation.

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January 12, 2021

Turkey investigates WhatsApp and Facebook over data privacy update

The new policy means users outside the EU and UK must agree to more of their data being shared to Facebook for advertising purposes.

January 11, 2021

WhatsApp private chat groups get EXPOSED again on Google search

WhatsApp has suffered an embarrassing privacy breach, with its private chat groups being indexed on Google’s search engine.

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January 11, 2021

UK Mass Hacking Ruled Illegal

The UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single ‘general warrant’.

January 11, 2021

UK competition watchdog opens probe into Google privacy changes

Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ plan to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser is being probed by a regulator in the United Kingdom over concerns it would be anticompetitive.