We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 15 June Spotify fined over $5 million for violating the GDPR --- The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection fined Spotify SEK 58 million ($5.4 million) for failure to adequately inform users on how...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 1 June FTC fines Amazon $25 million for violating child privacy laws --- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Amazon $25 million for violating the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The FTC has...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 27 Apr. Health and Safety Executive breached data protection laws over 500 times in 2022 --- In 2022, it was found that the Health and Service Executive (HSE) experienced 524 data protection breaches. 200 of...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 30 Mar. Health department leaks data of patients who accessed HIV services --- The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office reprimanded NHS Highland for a data breach that resulted in the exposure of sensitive patient information....
ChatGPT causes increasing data privacy concerns ChatGPT, short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, surpassed one million users in less than a week from its introduction and 100 million users within its first 2 months. Its ability to articulately answer questions, compose emails, write essays and code has...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 2 Mar. TikTok fined 1.75 million lira by Turkish data protection authority --- TikTok has been charged with yet another fine for failure to adequately protect user data. The personal Data Protection Board (KVKK)...
We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere 02 Feb. Should law enforcement use Google location data? --- The Register has reported that the American Civil Liberties Union is against the use Google location data as evidence to prosecute individuals, stating that...
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 24 Nov. The Irish Data Protection Commission indicates a range of fines to TikTok --- The DPC has indicated that “a preliminary range of fines” will be imposed on the Irish sector of TikTok. An...
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...
