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October 18, 2021

Amazon Fights Record €746 Million EU Data-Protection Fine

Amazon.com Inc. appealed a record 746 million-euro ($865 million) penalty for allegedly violating the European Union’s tough data-protection rules

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October 14, 2021

Irish privacy watchdog endorses Facebook’s approach to data protection

A draft decision from Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner endorsing Facebook’s legal basis for processing personal data has been met with criticism by a data protection activist who says the platform is trying to bypass EU privacy laws.

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October 14, 2021

French privacy watchdog takes action on government fingerprint database issues

CNIL has decided to call the Ministry of the Interior to order after observing several failures in the proper maintenance of the automated fingerprint file.

October 13, 2021

Irish regulator proposes 36 mln euro Facebook privacy fine

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has proposed fining Facebook up to 36 million euros in one of more than a dozen probes it has opened.

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October 8, 2021

IAB Europe suspends consent management firms

Regulators have doubts that promises of consent-based data collection by digital publishers and advertisers is based on genuine user consent.

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October 6, 2021

Smart cars vs. privacy: a driverless car could generate 100 GB of data per second

Fully autonomous vehicles might never come to much, but most privacy issues they raise are as salient today as they would be in any high-tech driverless future.

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October 4, 2021

Ad trackers continue to collect Europeans’ data without consent under the GDPR

On average, 500,000 ad impressions served per day earlier this year contradicted the data-collection choices people made as required under Europe’s privacy law.