Due to several hundred employees of the H&M service centre in Nuremberg were monitored by the centre management, the Hamburg representative for data protection and freedom of information (HmbBfDI) has issued a fine of 35,258,707.95
The new Swiss Data Protection Act (nFADP) has finally been completed. Following the resolution of the last differences on “profiling” on Wednesday, the Swiss Federal Parliament passed on Friday, September 25, 2020, the new law.
On Thursday in the Northern District of California, Brittany Conditi filed a class-action complaint against Instagram and its parent company Facebook for invasion of privacy alleging that Instagram accessed users’ smartphone cameras when not using features that
The creators of the data protection market standard for cloud, the EU Cloud Code of Conduct (CoC), today announced work is underway on a proposed legal solution for the transfer of personal data outside the
Data protection officers (DPOs) working in central government departments, agencies and associated public bodies across the UK say they have seen a doubling in volume of data protection requests (DPRs) since the introduction of the
The Irish regulator is expected to stop the social media giant from moving data to the US because of privacy concerns. Ireland’s privacy watchdog has told Facebook that it will soon have to stop transferring
The data protection authority of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg issued a guidance for European Union data exporters in the wake of the Schrems II decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy
Businesses operating within the European Union have been hit with a total of €68 million (£61.5m) in fines relating to GDPR breaches so far in 2020. Over €45 million of that came from Italian-owned companies,
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
As the General Data Protection Regulation came into force, companies that process personal data of EU citizens, are expected to comply with a stricter approach to data privacy and protection. US tech giant Google is
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