Ireland watchdog fines WhatsApp €225 million for flouting EU data rules
Messaging app calls €225m fine for breaking data protection rules ‘entirely disproportionate’.
Messaging app calls €225m fine for breaking data protection rules ‘entirely disproportionate’.
The EDPB adopted its first urgent binding decision pursuant to Art. 66(2) GDPR.
The European Parliament voted in favour of a resolution calling on the European Commission to open an infringement procedure against Ireland for failing to enforce the GDPR.
The company lost a bid to block a EU privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S.
Irish data protection authority acknowledged in Irish Parliament hearing it “handles” GDPR complaints by not deciding about them, in violation of EU law.
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).
MEPs have said that “a lack of political will and resources” had resulted in a laggard approach to enforcement of the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR).
The tech giant’s vice president for European government affairs,Caspar Klynge, says that a more assertive Irish voice is needed to address a “balance of power” shift in the EU
European Union privacy regulators must sort out their “public squabbles” over the enforcement of the bloc’s data-protection rules or its executive body may consider moving to a more centralized model to target violations.
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published its 2020 Annual Report, highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large scale inquiries and decisions of 2020.
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.
The lead data supervisor for a slew of tech giants in the European Union, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter, is still relying on Lotus Notes to manage complaints and investigations lodged under the bloc’s flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).