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July 30, 2021

Insights into the Future of Data Protection Enforcement

The FPF released a report “Insights into the future of data protection enforcement: Regulatory strategies of European Data Protection Authorities for 2021-2022”

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July 12, 2021

Lithuanian DPA Imposes Fine on a Sports Club for Use of Fingerprints

Lithuanian DPA fined sports club 20.000€ for improper use of fingerprints for identification.

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July 7, 2021

Commission opens an infringement procedure against Belgium on the independence of its Data Protection Authority

The Commission sent formal notice to Belgium for violating Article 52 of the GDPR, which states that the DPA shall be independent.

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July 1, 2021

Police find alleged rapist 14 years after crime using genealogy database

The case probably would have remained a mystery if Jared T. Vaughn had not voluntarily provided a sample of his DNA to a public genealogy database, according to police.

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June 15, 2021

German Data Protection Authorities Want to Know What Companies Are Doing With Customer Data

Several German Data Protection Authorities commence independent investigation of cross border transfers of personal data in violation of Schrems II.

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June 7, 2021

UK, EU investigate Facebook over data breach

Market competition regulators from Britain and the European Union (EU) have launched investigations into Facebook’s use of data.

May 31, 2021

German antitrust watchdog investigates Google over data use

Germany’s antitrust watchdog has launched a probe into whether Google Germany, Google Ireland and its parent company Alphabet are exploiting their market dominance in the way they handle data.

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May 11, 2021

Trump Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records

The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

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April 26, 2021

U.S. Department of Education Opens an Investigation into Pasco County’s Predictive Policing Program

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into the data-sharing practices between Florida’s Pasco County sheriff’s office and school district.

April 14, 2021

German DPA investigates WhatsApp Terms of Use

Urgency proceedings opened against Facebook in connection with the new WhatsApp Terms of Use.

April 13, 2021

Irish DPC probes whether Facebook data leak falls under GDPR time frame

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is probing whether any of the data records of 533 million Facebook users published over the weekend were leaked after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).