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We bring you a round up of articles and updates in the data sphere   Friday, 22nd of March 2024     EU: Finland Rules That Creating Accounts When Purchasing Online Is Not Mandatory   On the 18th of March 2024, Finland's DPA fined the online store Verkkokauppa.com 856,000 euros. The store...

 European Data Protection Board has accepted the final version of Guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology   The European Data Protection Board has accepted the final version of Guidelines on when and how facial technology can be used in law enforcement.   The Guidelines emphasize that facial...

Data protection breaches in healthcare      Hospitals, healthcare providers, and health services have been inundated with security breaches, data leakages, and hacks.  Inadequate data protection practices, despite the highly sensitive personal information that hospitals store, have led to a significant number of breaches. Many hospitals have also...

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...