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November 7, 2020

UK’s ICO faces legal action after closing adtech complaint with nothing to show

The UK’s data watchdog is facing a legal challenge after it took the decision to quietly close a complaint against […]

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November 3, 2020

More GDPR applied in the UK than in Italy & France Combined

A report released by BuyShares has revealed that the United Kingdom tops for the imposition of data breach penalties with […]

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October 30, 2020

NOYB Approved to File Class Actions and Claim Damages in Front of Belgian Courts

On October 29, 2020, the non-governmental organization co-founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, None of Your Business (NOYB), announced it […]

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October 30, 2020

Experian vows to drag UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

Experian has been rapped over the knuckles by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it discovered the credit reference […]

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October 30, 2020

European Parliament’s COVID website overrun with US web trackers

The European Parliament’s coronavirus test management website is overrun with user tracking requests, some of which are attempting to siphon […]

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October 29, 2020

Experian faces GDPR action after ICO finds ‘widespread data protection failings’

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered credit rating giant Experian to stop profiting from the secretive enriching and processing […]

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October 27, 2020

ICO probes complaints following allegations Wagamama used Covid-19 track and trace data to survey customers

Wagamama customers in the UK have allegedly been sent a survey after sharing contact details for Covid-19 contact tracing, The […]

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October 23, 2020

EU regulator warns Europol could be breaking data rules

Law enforcement agency Europol is likely to have mishandled troves of personal data in breach of the agency’s own rules, […]

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October 21, 2020

IAB Europe warns of ‘chilling effect’ on open-source compliance solutions if GDPR breach interpretation upheld

Digital advertising association IAB Europe has hit out at a preliminary report by the Belgian Data Protection Authority finding that […]

October 21, 2020

Irish data watchdog investigates Instagram’s use of children’s data

Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) has opened an inquiry into processing of children’s data by Instagram. Instagram platform is owned […]

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October 19, 2020

IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard

A flagship framework for gathering Internet users’ consent for targeting with behavioral ads — which is designed by ad industry […]

October 19, 2020

Google Analytics Gets A Major Privacy And Machine Learning-Focused Overhaul

Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left. […]

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compliance

UK’s ICO faces legal action after closing adtech complaint with nothing to show

Experian vows to drag UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

European Parliament’s COVID website overrun with US web trackers

ICO probes complaints following allegations Wagamama used Covid-19 track and trace data to survey customers

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