IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard A flagship framework for gathering Internet users’ consent for targeting with behavioral ads — which is designed by ad industry body, the IAB Europe
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 of its customers. An ICO investigation found the airline was processing
The referendum campaign Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance Group were announced to receive GDPR fines for a total of £120,000. This decision was presented by ICO due to unlawful electronic marketing actions. Furthermore, companies are being investigated on
You would think that of all the companies and organizations, NASA – an independent agency, responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research – would have implemented the highest data protection security measures. However, a data
The French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) was not in a festive mood when right after Christmas, on the 27th of December, announced and imposed the fine of €250,000 to French telecom operator Bouygues Telecom
Portuguese Supervisory Authority (“CNPD”) imposed a fine of 400.000 € on a hospital for the GDPR infringement. The hospital publicly announced that it will contest the fine. The CNPD carried out an investigation at the
The Radisson Hotel Group has experienced a data breach impacting members of the firm’s loyalty and rewards scheme in over 1,400 hotels in over 70 countries. Though, the Group claims that less than 10% members
After GDPR coming into force, it was assumed the big players – multinational companies were the first to receive sanctions. However, first action (filed in July and disclosed on September), the Enforcement Notice, was towards
GDPR came into full force on 25 May 2018. Right after that, Max Schrems filed the first cases under GDPR against Facebook and Google. The €3.9 billion lawsuits accused the companies of “coercing” users into
Timehop, a smartphone app that helps you celebrate the best moments of the past with your friends, recently admitted to more data leakage because of a data breaches. The company first acknowledged the breach saying that users’
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