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July 19, 2023

Criteo Fined €40 Million for GDPR Breaches in User Consent

Criteo has received a fine of €40 million from CNIL for GDPR breaches related to user consent and data processing in targeted advertising.

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July 19, 2023

European Commission proposes new rules to speed up GDPR enforcement

The European Commission has proposed new rules to speed up GDPR enforcement by requiring privacy regulators to share information upfront in major cases and settle disputes out of court, although the draft law has faced criticism from both privacy activists and Big Tech companies.

July 18, 2023

Norway regulator to fine Meta over privacy breaches

Norway’s data protection authority, Datatilsynet, has threatened to fine Meta Platforms $100,000 per day for privacy breaches and illegal data harvesting for targeted advertising.

June 14, 2023

Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation

The Swedish Data Protection Authority imposed a hefty fine of €5 Million on Spotify due to their failure to GDPR non-compliance.

June 6, 2023

CNIL closes injunction against Microsoft

The CNIL brought an end to the proceedings against Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited as it complied with requirements.

June 5, 2023

Microsoft says Irish DPC intends to slam LinkedIn with a $425m fine

Ireland’s DPA to fine Microsoft $425m for LinkedIn’s GDPR breaches.

May 19, 2023

Meta facing record fine for mishandling EU user data

Facebook is set to face potentially record-breaking fine for their noncompliance with the GDPR.

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May 18, 2023

75% of Ireland’s GDPR decisions since 2018 overruled

EDPB has overruled a whopping 75% of decisions made by the Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) in EU cases.

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May 18, 2023

CJEU’s Advocate General Issues Opinion on Concept of Controller, Joint Controller, Processor, and Administrative Fines

Advocate General released an opinion on the concepts of “controller”, “joint controller” and “processor”, and also liability system established by the GDPR.

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May 17, 2023

Italian DPA Fines Digital Marketing Company Over Use of Dark Patterns

Italian DPA fined a marketing agency for use of ‘dark patterns’ on their website.

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May 17, 2023

Clearview AI data use deemed illegal in Austria

Clearview AI must cease processing any biometric data belonging to the complainant and delete any of their existing profiles in its searchable database.