First Ever UK GDPR Penalty is €325k for London Pharmacy
The first ever General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) penalty in the United Kingdom has been sanctioned against a London-based pharmacy […]
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Max Schrems Files GDPR Complaints with French DPA on Cookie Use
European privacy advocacy group None of your business (NOYB)—led by Max Schrems—announced it had filed three formal complaints with the […]
UK ICO publishes new guidance on special category data
On November 14, 2019, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published detailed guidance on the processing of special category data. […]
The ICO are owed £7m in unpaid fines
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) are struggling to collect monetary penalties from organisations it has fined since 2015. 152 fines […]
Dutch DPA fines company for not using 2FA
The Dutch Data Protection Authority imposed an order for incremental penalty payments of 150,000 euros per month with a maximum […]
UK’s data regulator again warns ad tech over GDPR compliance
U.K. data protection authority, The Information Commissioner’s Office, has stepped up its warning for the ad tech industry to get […]
ICO concerned by mass health data-sharing with advertisers
The UK’s data regulator has expressed deep concerns over reports that some of the most popular health websites are sharing […]
Data Protection Commissioner investigating micro-targeting on social media
The Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has said her office is conducting a number of investigations into the micro-targeting of […]
Data Protection Commission engaging with Revolut as a “matter of urgency”
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has said that it will be engaging with financial technology company Revolut as “a […]
Spanish Supervisory Authority and EDPS release guidance on hashing for data pseudonymization and anonymization purposes
On November 4, 2019, the Spanish Supervisory Authority (“AEPD”), in collaboration with the European Data Protection Supervisor, published guidance on the […]
Data for money: App facilitating data portability now under the EDPB’s scrutiny
A number of Italian retailers submitted to the Italian Data Protection Authority, the Garante, very similar complaints concerning massive data […]
Irish data protection commissioner set to issue decisions on Twitter and Whatsapp probes by end of year
The Irish data protection commissioner expects to issue decisions on investigations into Twitter and Whatsapp by the end of the […]