Clearview AI Inc. was hit by a wave of complaints across Europe for allegedly breaking the region’s tough privacy laws by scraping billions of facial images from social-media profiles and the internet.
Appeal court ruling means people denied settled status or immigration visas can see records used in the case.
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp could be fined up to €50 million over violations of the European Union’s data protection rules.
The recent UK case of Soriano v Forensic News and Others tested the territorial reach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and represents the first UK judgment dealing with the territorial scope of the GDPR.
Where those requests are repetitive, numerous, and the real purpose is to obtain documents and not data, businesses might reasonably resist civil claims raising similar factual issues.
The French multinational retailer Carrefour has been fined €3m for multiple data protection failings. Data protection agency CNIL has fined […]
Four Republican senators have introduced a privacy bill that would override state privacy laws, other than ones requiring notifications of […]
The removal of nearly 200 links from Google search in Germany about a princess’ drunken rampage in Scotland raises questions […]
On the 6 th of July 2020, the Dutch Data Protection Authority published its decision to impose a fine of […]
On May 4, 2020, the Hungarian Government issued a Decree that suspends, during the COVID-19 created state of emergency, the […]
Google won a battle over the right to be forgotten after France’s top administrative court canceled a fine of 100,000 […]
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is being misused by employers across Europe as trade unions are denied access […]