The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ordered Spain to pay the European Commission 15.5 million euros and a potential daily fine thereafter for failing to transpose the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive (Directive (EU) 2016/680).
The decision means the Court of Justice of the European Union will need to clarify the framework for EU General Data Protection Regulation damages claims.
Social media giant had insisted only Ireland’s regulator could take action over infringements.
Phone data helped clinch murder conviction for Graham Dwyer in 2015 but he may go free.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on the Invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the Future of Transatlantic Data Flows.
The European Union faced some tough questions as it defended Facebook at the EU high court Monday, in a case […]
This week, the CJEU issued a ruling that could spring a leak and potentially sink adequacy negotiations between the U.K. […]
Europe’s top court has delivered another slap-down to indiscriminate government mass surveillance regimes. In a ruling the CJEU has made […]
The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) is appearing at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxemburg […]
On September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced that it established two taskforces following the judgment of […]
Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary, including highly personal details, for their investigations […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision in “Schrems II” Thursday, a landmark decision that invalidates […]