South Korea’s privacy watchdog (PIPC) has fined Facebook millions for providing users’ personal information to companies. According to the data protector, the data of at least 3.3 million local Facebook users would have been shared without permission with up to 10,000 companies. Personal data such as relationship statuses, work experience and education were shared with … Read more
One month after the cancellation of the data treaty “Privacy Shield” between the EU and the US, privacy activist Max Schrems is taking websites to court that still send data to the US. There are also 8 Belgian and Dutch ones being sued: PostNL, Takeaway, Marktplaats and Lieferando. A month after that ruling, the Schrems … Read more
What happens to data offered through a US cloud software vendor now that the EU-US Privacy Shield has been invalidated? Because the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is about electronic communication service providers, this ruling has an effect on a lot of cloud software within your organization. The main problem with US regulations is that … Read more
Google Loses Its Appeal On 50 Million Euro GDPR Fine which was lifted upon her in january 2019. Google said the French DPA doesn’t have legislation over her, since its’ headquarters are in Ireland. Read more about this: https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/google-loses-its-appeal-on-50-million-euro-gdpr-fine/