UK’s DPA fines firms behind millions of nuisance calls, spam emails and SMS
Four companies that disrupted people with nuisance marketing have been fined a total of £600,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office. […]
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Carphone Warehouse fined for ‘striking’ number of failures that led to data breach
Information Commissioner’s Office fines company £400,000 for ‘concerning’ security issues following investigation of hack of 3m customers’ data. Source: Carphone […]
Fines under GDPR wait for businesses that fail to fix known security flaws now, says UK watchdog
Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were […]
FTC settles case on connected toys
Electronic toy manufacturer VTech Electronics Limited and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission […]
Insurance firm and two senior figures handed record data breach fines
An insurance firm and two senior figures connected with the company have been given record fines for using private detectives […]
Spanish DPA fines Google €300,000 over Street View data collection
Seven years after Google raised hackles by collecting information about Wi-Fi access points with its Street View fleet, Spain’s privacy […]
EDPS wants centralised regulator with muscle to police firms
EU lawmakers should create a new, centralised data protection authority to oversee investigations of privacy breaches that affect more than […]
ICO warns data broking industry after issuing £80,000 fine to unlawful data supplier
A firm trading in people’s personal information and describing itself as ‘the UK’s Premier Lead Generation Provider’ has been fined […]
Facebook Risks EU-Wide Privacy Fights After Setback at Top Court
Facebook could be in the firing line of data privacy regulators across the European Union if the bloc’s top court […]
WP29 releases guidelines on administrative fines under the GDPR
The EU’s Article 29 Working Party on Friday published the final guidelines on the application and setting of administrative fines under […]
Facebook Is Watching You, Belgian Privacy Agency Warns in Court
Belgium’s data privacy watchdog accuses Facebook of Big Brother-style snooping on internet users. The regulator sought a court order on Thursday […]
Spanish DPA’s decision fining Facebook “first to go into detail of massive scale processing”
14 September 2017 The Spanish data protection authority (‘AEPD’) announced, on 11 September 2017, that it had issued a decision […]