The Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner in Australia, Angelene Falk, has found the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 asylum seekers by mistakenly releasing their personal information.
The Belgian DPA has imposed a fine of 50,000 euro on the company Family Service for various breaches of the GDPR.
Epsilon Data Management has agreed a $150m settlement with the US DoJ to resolve a criminal charge for selling data on more than 30 million Americans to fraudsters.
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp could be fined up to €50 million over violations of the European Union’s data protection rules.
EUR 272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of Europe’s tough data protection laws
The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 10.4 million euros on notebooksbilliger.de AG.
Ticketmaster Used Passwords Unlawfully Retained by a Former Employee of a Competitor to Access Computer Systems in Scheme to “Choke Off” the Victim’s Business.
Twitter has been fined over a bug that made private tweets public, in a world-first for data protection laws.
Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35 million (~$42 million) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued on December 10.
The Swedish Court confirmed Google violated the GDPR in several instances and rejected Google’s motion.
Despite “very divergent views” between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision […]
The European Data Protection Board has issued guidance on its Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF). The CEF provides a structure for […]