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January 29, 2021

Police Say They Can Use Facial Recognition, Despite Bans

More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes.

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January 28, 2021

EU and UK discuss state of play for UK adequacy, data transfers

Representatives from the European Commission and U.K. government discuss the state of U.K. adequacy in the wake of Brexit.

January 27, 2021

WhatsApp facing up to €50M privacy fine

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp could be fined up to €50 million over violations of the European Union’s data protection rules.

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January 23, 2021

Monitoring of Employees Faces under Scrutiny in Europe

European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.

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January 23, 2021

An EU parliament website for COVID testing allegedly broke the EU’s privacy laws

The European Parliament is being investigated by the European Data Protection Supervisor after allegations that its COVID testing website didn’t meet EU privacy standards.

January 22, 2021

Brussels zeroes in on Google’s adtech business

The European Commission is mulling two new probes into the tech giant.

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January 20, 2021

EUR 272.5m in fines imposed by European regulators under GDPR

EUR 272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of Europe’s tough data protection laws

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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.

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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.

December 23, 2020

Italian Privacy Watchdog Initiates Proceedings Against TikTok

The investigations the Italian DPA highlight data processing activities that are not compliant with GDPR.

December 21, 2020

Facebook and Instagram disable features in Europe

The company says some of its messaging features may need to be adapted to comply with EU rules.

December 18, 2020

UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365

The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts.

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