Demant, a hearing aid company, has revealed that it is expected to incur losses of up to $95 million, following a ransomware attack. In a company announcement, on September 3, the company had experienced a critical incident on their internal IT Infrastructure. In the announcement, the company stated that is was able to assess the […]
Denmark
The Danish Data Protection Authority has changed its position regarding the legal basis for posting pictures online under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Rather than a distinction between “situational” and “portrait” pictures, Datatilsynet now requires a case-by-case analysis. The Danish DPA will no longer distinguish between situational and portrait images. It now holds that […]
The Denmark Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled on April 11, 2019, that affirmative consent is required when companies record customer telephone calls. In this case company provided disclosures to its customers that calls may be recorded for training purposes, but did not offered a mechanism for customers to opt-in or opt-out of the recording. DPA […]
A recent fine imposed by the Danish DPA gives some guidance on how processing requirements for personal data, set in GDPR Article 5, could be enforced going forward. Full article: Danish DPA’s recent fine offers insight on Article 5 enforcement
Denmark’s Data Protection Authority (DPA) has recommended fining a taxi company 1.2 million kroner ($180,000) for not deleting customers’ telephone numbers, the first Danish penalty imposed under Europe’s strict 2018 privacy rules. The fine demonstrates that it’s not enough for companies doing business in Denmark to delete people’s names and addresses to satisfy the requirements […]
The landmark introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May has triggered a resource and budgetary headache at Datatilsynet, Denmark’s data protection agency (DPA). The DPA has logged a significant surge in GDPR-related cases since June, especially cases linked to social media organisations, including Facebook and Google. The uplift in workload is happening at […]
Minister for employment Troels Lund Poulsen has backed suggestions that an ethics council for the use of data could be established by the Danish state. The idea has been raised by environmentalist party Alternative, which has proposed that areas such as privacy, data protection, artificial intelligence and data laws could come under the remit of […]
Denmark’s Education Minister Merete Riisager has proposed a new law that encourages students to grant schools access to their personal laptops. The proposal seeks to make it more difficult for students to cheat in exams. As part of the new rules, schools will also be allowed to do background checks on students’ search history and social […]
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