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Dutch DPA imposes fine for delayed report of a data breach

Dutch DPA imposes fine on international travel agency booking.com, for their delayed action in reporting a significant data breach.    Netherlands based international travel agency, Booking.com was recently hit with a fine for their delayed action in reporting a data breach. The breach was discovered on January 13, 2019, after having occurred in December of
April 16, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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  Zandilli Lucien

Facebook data leak affects over half a billion users worldwide

Facebook data leak results in the personal information of over half a billion users being made available publicly and free of charge.    Facebook has recently been implicated in a massive data leak affecting over a half a billion users, as reported by Business Insider earlier this month. The personal data leaked was gathered during
April 14, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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Digital Green Certificates: the EDPB and EDPS release a joint opinion

Digital Green Certificates have been a topic of debate lately, and the EDPB & EDPS have released a joint opinion on this, regarding data protection and privacy. Digital Green Certificates, which some refer to as “vaccine passports” are, contrary to popular belief, not specific to vaccines. In actuality, the digital green certificates or passes, as
April 9, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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German Facebook case forwarded to ECJ with questions pending

Facebook case forwarded to ECJ after Facebook appealed German competition authority’s order to halt data collection practices.    In recent times, Facebook has come under fire for its data collection practices, which span several integrated platforms. The company has been accused of ‘superprofiling’, and has been in court with German authorities regarding a pro-privacy order,
April 7, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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Spanish court rules against mandatory geolocation from employees’ personal mobile phones

Spanish court rules against obliging delivery drivers to provide geolocation from their personal mobile phones and personal internet connection.   The Social Chamber of the Supreme Court in Spain has confirmed a decision nullifying Telepizza SAU’s ‘Tracker Project.’ This project included mandatory employee location tracking for delivery drivers, facilitated through their personal phones’ geolocation feature,
March 31, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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EDPB published VVA guidelines in the context of the GDPR

The EDPB published VVA guidelines giving context to the use of Virtual Voice Assistants in compliance with the GDPR.    Recently, the EDPB published its guidelines for the use of virtual voice assistants. A virtual voice assistant (VVA) is a system that understands and executes voice commands and works with other IT systems if needed.
March 26, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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French court ruling provides greater context to the application of “Schrems II” under the GDPR

French court ruling provides further guidance as to the application of “Schrems II”, as data hosted by subsidiary of US company is found to be protected.    France’s highest administrative court ruled earlier this month that the hosting of a booking platform for COVID-19 vaccinations on Amazon Web Service, also known as AWS, was indeed
March 24, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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Social Media platforms and inherent privacy concerns

Is Social Media a safe space?   Social Media (SM) is here to stay, with increasing importance in our day to day lives; 45% of the world population uses social networks (2020). Subsequently, there is an impending need to harness privacy practices, thereby limiting the possibility of negative impact to users. Popular SM networks include
March 19, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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Children’s Code transitionary period ends in less than 6 months

The children’s code transitionary period, which saw its inception on 2nd September 2020, ends in less than 6 months. All online services are expected to be in compliance with this code by September 2021.  Last year, we reported that the Children’s Code, then known as the Age Appropriate Design Code was about to come into
March 17, 2021 Comments (0) Share
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Two companies fined by the ICO, for sending millions of nuisance text messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ICO has issued fines to two companies for over 2.7 million spam messages sent out during the pandemic.    Between May and July, 2020, two companies sent out a total of 2.7 million spam text messages in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This resulted in several thousand complaints, including a record 10,000
March 12, 2021 Comments (0) Share