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January 11, 2022

Meghan Markle awarded 1 pound privacy damages, much more for copyright

Duchess Meghan’s victory over a British tabloid for publishing her personal letter to her dad will get her 1 pound now and substantially more later.

January 6, 2022

French watchdog fines Google 150 million euros for cookie compliance failure

CNIL fined Google LLC €90 million and Google Ireland Limited €60 million about the way cookies can be refused on the websites google.fr and youtube.com.

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January 5, 2022

Patreon subs in sterling or euros open GDPR legal liability

Patreon subs in sterling or euros open GDPR legal liability even if you’ve got no other EU legal presence

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January 4, 2022

European Privacy and Antitrust Regulators Join Forces on Corporate Data

Companies are bracing for more regulatory scrutiny in 2022 as U.K. and European Union watchdogs in antitrust and data privacy collaborate.

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January 4, 2022

China harvests masses of data on Western targets

Hundreds of projects show that Chinea is gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived threats.

January 4, 2022

Google Patent Describes How Its Technology Authorizes Transfer Of Data Without Cookies

Google registered a patent for a web browser-based API that can control authorization of data transmissions and attribute a click withoutusing cookies.

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January 1, 2022

German DPA Guidelines Impose Strict Limitations on Cookies

The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) issued guidance on the Federal Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (‘TTDSG’).

January 1, 2022

Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?

Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.

December 27, 2021

DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser

The desktop app will work just like its mobile equivalent.

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December 26, 2021

EU Parliament Gives Green Light to Digital Markets Act

On December 15, 2021, the European Parliament adopted its position on the proposal for a Digital Markets Act (DMA), ahead of negotiations with the Council of the European Union.

December 21, 2021

Court suspends the execution of the injunctions against the Amazon

The president of the administrative court issued an order partially granting the request made by the company Amazon Europe Core S.AR.L. tending to suspend the execution of the decision of July 15, 2021 of the National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD).