Meta was fined with €390M (210 million and €180 million fines for Facebook and Instagram) and accused the company of lacking proper legal grounds to process millions of Europeans’ with its data-fueled advertising model. Meta trongly disagree with the DPC’s final decision, and believes to fully comply with GDPR by relying on Contractual Necessity for … Read more
The US government demands direct access to databases of European police services containing biometric data of European citizens. The US makes this entry mandatory for countries participating in the so-called Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens of certain countries to travel to the United States without a visa. At the beginning of this year, US … Read more
Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ personal information. Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a U.S. data privacy class action and the most that Meta … Read more
What today is a dataset without personal data or with anonymised data, no longer has to be that way tomorrow. Due to the wider availability of open data and new technologies, data can easily be combined with other data. For example, the dataset can change in a matter of seconds into a dataset with data … Read more
The Irish privacy regulator DPC has imposed a GDPR fine of 265 million euros, around 0.5 per leaked dataset, on Meta for a major data breach at Facebook that left the data of 533 million users on the street. Last year, Ireland’s data protection authority launched an investigation after media reported about a dataset of … Read more
German privacy regulators have ruled that the use Microsoft 365 by governments, companies and educational institutions is in violation of privacy legislation. Only by taking additional technical measures is it possible to use the software in Germany. This was the opinion of the German regulators during the Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK) that took place last week. Although … Read more
Someone is allegedly selling up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. A data sample investigated by Cybernews likely confirms this to be true.
The CNIL pronounced against the company Discord INC. a fine of 800,000 euros for failing to comply with several GDPR obligations, in particular with regard to retention periods and the security of personal data. Discord is a voice over IP (technology that allows users to chat via their microphone and/or webcam over the Internet) and … Read more
Google has settled in the United States for misleadingly obtaining location data from millions of users for an amount of $ 391 million. Forty US states participated in the lawsuit against the tech company. According to state attorneys general, Google has violated consumer law by misleading users about location settings since at least 2014. This … Read more
New research suggests that even if you disable the sharing of Device Analytics and turn on other privacy settings data is being collected by a number of Apple iPhone apps—the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks.