We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere Thursday, 29 February USA: Biden Releases New Executive Order on Privacy On February 28th, Biden issued an Executive Order that would prevent non-friendly countries from trying to access the private data of American citizens....
Over 120 00 drivers for Uber complained to the French human rights organisation Ligue des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen (LDH) that Uber was making it difficult for them to access their personal data. The French Supervisory Authority referred this case to Netherlands, where...
On the 31st of January 2024, the CEOs of Meta, Discord, X, Snap and TikTok were called to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing after it was revealed that online child sexual exploitation was rising. At the hearing families whose children self-harmed and/or committed suicide as...
After a witness in Bulgaria had testified wrongly, was imprisoned for a year and then let out on rehabilitation. As part of his sentencing, the Bulgarian criminal records are obliged to keep fingerprints, a photograph and DNA samples in order to prevent crime in future...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 26 January Italian DPA fines municipality for using AI surveillance --- The Italian DPA fined the municipality of Trento 50000 euros after for using AI in violation of GDPR. The AI-driven surveillance system, with the...
Compliant Marketing Made Simple #1 Thinking through the recent penalties relating to directing marketing: The HelloFresh fine by the ICO and Groupe Canal's by CNIL, their common shortcoming are: Lack of Transparency, invalid Consent and not respecting the Rights of customers. Direct Marketing is one of...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Easylife Ltd (EasyLife), for using personal information of 145,400 customers that had made purchases via their Health Catalogue, to predict their medical condition and target them with health-related products without their consent. The ICO found that EasyLife had profiles...
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We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere Dec. 15 Microsoft’s EU data boundary will begin rollout in January 2023 --- Companies and businesses that use Microsoft will be able to process and store customer data within the European Union. Concerns have been...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere. 22.07.22 EDPS In its Opinion published on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on recovery and confiscation of assets, the EDPS recognises that processing personal data in this context is liable to have...
