Schrems vs. Facebook: Dispute over advertising consent could soon end up before the ECJ
The data protection activist wants to bring the dispute over explicit consent to data processing for advertising and tracking to the European Supreme Court.
GDPR
Wave of Legal Appeals Challenges How European Regulators Enforce Privacy Rules
Nearly three years after a sweeping privacy law took effect in Europe, regulators are seeing more sanction decisions challenged and overturned as companies file appeals.
UK minister signals divergence: ‘EU doesn’t hold the monopoly on data protection’
A United Kingdom government minister has signalled the country is likely to diverge from the European Union on data protection.
Ireland’s DPA publishes Annual Report 2020
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published its 2020 Annual Report, highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large scale inquiries and decisions of 2020.
Google Workspace has high data protection risks, says Dutch government
A Dutch government report identifying 10 high data protection risks for users of Google Workspace has been revised after Google’s response, and now says eight high risk issues still remain.
A New Day for GDPR Damages Claims in Germany?
Claims for non-material damages – have been relatively low. However, a more recent decision issued by the Federal Constitutional Court indicates courts may soon be willing to entertain higher damages claims.
EU-U.S. data flows could face ‘massive disruption’
One of the European Union’s most powerful data regulators has warned companies may yet face massive disruption to translatlantic data flows as a result of an EU court ruling last year, despite efforts by policymakers to avoid that outcome.
Federal Constitutional Court: CJEU must clarify whether GDPR provides materiality threshold
The decision means the Court of Justice of the European Union will need to clarify the framework for EU General Data Protection Regulation damages claims.
Facebook fined €7 million by watchdog
In addition to sanctioning Facebook for 5 million euros, the Authority had prohibited the further dissemination of the misleading practice and ordered the publication of an amendment statement on the homepage of the company website for Italy, on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
Aiming to Cash In on Data, European Firms Grapple With Privacy Laws
Companies in Europe want to share the personal data of consumers with other firms or turn it into business applications without violating privacy rules, but there is no consensus on how to avoid revealing such potentially sensitive information.
10 GDPR fines and what to learn from them
I selected 10 from just December 2020 and January 2021 which were biggest or most interesting.
BEUC files complaint against TikTok for multiple EU consumer law breaches
TikTok’s practices for the processing of users’ personal data are misleading.