Life DPC forced to reinvestigate GDPR complaints by European court Ruling marks latest twist in set of three actions dating back to 2018 29 Jan
Trade Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310m Social network hit over practice of ad targeting without consent 24 Oct
Life DPC fines Meta €91m over unencrypted passwords Fine issued after material found to be stored in plaintext 27 Sep
Life Data protection complaint filed against European Parliament Brussels deals with own GDPR violation 22 Aug
Pro Uber fined €10m for violating privacy rules Dutch regulators act on complaints by French drivers 31 Jan
Pro European data regulators work on unified approach to ‘pay or okay’ European Data Protection Board expected to take a position on the issue within eight weeks 26 Jan
Pro California’s vision of regulation through innovation The state has learned a few lessons from GDPR and has a few tricks of its own, Microsoft's Kieran McCorry tells Niall Kitson 24 Jan
Radio Samsung switches it up with the Galaxy S24 Under the hood of the phone that thinks it knows it all 19 Jan
Life TikTok hit with €345m fine over processing child user data Child protection at heart of sanctions against video sharing network 15 Sep
Life Meta faces €89,000 daily fine for harvesting user data to power ads Norwegian data protection authority’s ruling could set a precedent for other regulators 9 Aug
Life Gartner: EU-US Data Transfer Framework will be overturned within five years Analyst dubs adequacy ruling “Déjà EU” 11 Jul
Blogs DPC at odds with Europe on GDPR enforcement The data protection commission's move to conceal investigations bodes ill for all of us, says Billy MacInnes 6 Jul
Life New GDPR proposals address cross-border complaints Proposals to streamline complaints process across territories 5 Jul
Blogs The case of the Meta vs The People The company formerly known as Facebook can't process a data protection regime that puts consumers first, says Billy MacInnes 25 May
Blogs Regulator complains of a lack of agency in GDPR enforcement Meta's latest GDPR loss has exposed a rift between the DPC and Europe, says Billy MacInnes 5 Jan
Blogs Meta fine includes a meta lesson for every business Facebook being hit with a €250m fine not only shows regulation has finally caught up with the internet, but that data really is the new oil, spills... 2 Dec
Radio Mazars’ Liam McKenna on standards in GDPR Ireland finally gets into the space race and next-level data protection 21 Oct
Pro EU watchdog fights against rules permitting Europol’s ‘unlawful’ data practices The pushback follows allegations that Europol was allowed to write its own rules when it came to handling sensitive data 23 Sep
Life Instagram slapped with €405m GDPR fine over breaches The social media platform becomes the third Meta-owned company to be hit with privacy penalty 6 Sep
Life UK scraps parts of GDPR in Data Reform Bill The reforms include an overhaul to the Information Commissioner's Office and a watering-down of rules around consent for scientific research 17 Jun
Trade The cookie phase-out might precede an AdTech apocalypse With the industry phasing out third party cookies, what does this mean for businesses reliant on them to track and improve their campaigns? 23 May
Trade EU rules against Meta in data privacy row The European Court of Justice says consumer groups can take legal action over data privacy breaches 29 Apr
Life Google adds ‘reject all’ cookie buttons to appease EU regulators New banners will be applied to Search and YouTube in France before rolling out across Europe 22 Apr
Pro Meta hit with €17m fine over multiple GDPR breaches The social media giant set aside over €1bn in November to help it cope with potential fines arising from data protection investigations 16 Mar
Life Google and competition watchdog agree on rules governing cookie policy changes The news comes as the European Publishers Council (EPC) issued a European Commission antitrust complaint against Google 11 Feb
Life European data regulators issued €1.1bn in GDPR fines in 2021 Ireland's €225m WhatsApp fine second largest imposed during the year 18 Jan
ICS UK data protection laws in limbo as Brexit forces regulation rethink A 'light touch' could be key to attracting tech companies, writes Jared Browne 28 Oct
Life Footballers seek compensation for ‘GDPR violating’ performance data trading Letter threatening legal action against 17 firms that use trade player data claims the practice violates EU data protection law 12 Oct
Pro Data Protection Commission fails to resolve 98% of Big Tech GDPR cases Campaigners accuse regulator of being a ‘bottleneck’ for GDPR enforcement 13 Sep
Trade DPC fines WhatsApp €225m over data sharing policies Finalised penalty almost five times larger than draft fine issued in December 2020 2 Sep
Pro Zoom is no longer compatible with GDPR, Hamburg data watchdog claims Regulator claims city officials are using a "legally highly problematic system" 19 Aug
Life Ikea fined €1.1m for spying on employees Privacy experts slam the fine as a 'slap on the wrist' and say the retailer could have faced much harsher consequences under GDPR 16 Jun
Life Germany bans Facebook from using WhatsApp data over GDPR concerns Hamburg's data protection commissioner issues three-month ban days before the app's new privacy policy rolls out 12 May
Blogs GDPR: anniversaries, reports and open letters, but no fines On the second anniversary of the regulation implementation date, we still await a bite from the tiger 25 May
Life Report: Avast and AVG collect and sell your personal info via their free antivirus programs Avast says opt-out option coming soon 28 Jan
Life Ireland ranks second in Europe for GDPR complaints Report says more than 6,700 complaints lodged in 2019 20 Jan
Pro Third party compliance most challenging aspect of GDPR, research finds One in five companies have experienced a data protection breach in the last 12 months 9 Jul
Pro British Airways to be fined for GDPR infringements £183 million fine is 1.5% of 2017 turnover 8 Jul
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