Terms, Conditions and Considerations Under the GDPR
With the recent major GDPR cases on Facebook and Google, DPOs at smaller companies are getting worried and challenged in […]
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More than half of UK businesses are not fully GDPR compliant
Research by Egress has revealed that 52% of UK businesses are still not fully compliant with GDPR regulation since its […]
Bavarian DPA investigates Blood Donation Service for website tracking
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA) is currently scrutinising the website of the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red […]
How long should it take to risk-score a privacy incident?
If you’ve been in the privacy world for any amount of time, you recognize there has been a marked increase […]
YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200 Million for Children’s Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to fine Google $150 million to $200 million to settle accusations that its YouTube […]
NRA fined with BGN 5.1 million for personal data leakage
Bulgarian data protection authority announced that it had completed its investigation into the NRA over a breach of personal data […]
How to interpret Sweden’s first GDPR fine on facial recognition in school
The school used facial-recognition software via camera to capture and register 22 students’ participation in class. The school board claimed […]
Data Scraping – Considering the Privacy Issues
Data scraping is a general term that describes a plethora of Internet-based data retrieval methodologies, used without the permission of […]
IAB Europe issues updated GDPR-compliancy protocol
IAB Europe and the IAB Tech Lab have released the second iteration of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), a […]
Anonymisation does not work for big data
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well […]
Facial recognition in school renders Sweden’s first GDPR fine
The Swedish DPA has fined a municipality 200 000 SEK (approximately 20 000 euros) for using facial recognition technology to […]
Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network
On August 8, representatives of the global community of data protection and privacy enforcement authorities issued a joint statement on […]