Facebook sued for mining private messages – is online privacy really dead?
Facebook has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over claims it monitors its users' private messages, selling the data collected to advertisers.
Tag: Data Protection
Monthly Round Up: December 2013
In the news at the end of 2013: Europe to reduce air pollution, BEREC adopts its work programme for next year, we found out what we googled in 2013 and the percentage of European enterprises that use social media, and the world's leading technology companies unite to demand changes to US surveillance laws.
Google accused of unlawfully tracking users, wants to avoid UK courts
Google is arguing that a lawsuit over its British users’ privacy should be handled in US courts.
Anonymous online comments the responsibility of website they are published on?
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a news website is responsible for its users’ defamatory comments. The judgement comes in the case of Delfi SA v. Estonia.
Improved EU rules for stolen personal data online
EU common rules enable a high standard of protection for your personal information everywhere in Europe, and their scope has just been expanded by new specific rules for consumers when telecoms personal data is lost or stolen.
France to Google: comply with the law or pay
As promised in the beginning of this year, the French data protection authority has ordered Google to change its privacy policy in three months or else pay a fine of up to 300,000 €. Launching their own national investigations are several other EU Member States.
Monthly Round Up: April 2013
This month we celebrated Earth Day 2013, found out how the end of the DVD will benefit the environment and how to delete your online life, and can now tell the difference between US and EU data protection.
Monthly Round Up: March 2013
Read about the new EU rules to cut by 30% the cost of rolling out high-speed Internet, the candidates for the European Green Capital 2015 and see pictures of Earth Hour 2013.
Mobile apps must obtain meaningful consent from user, limit the purpose of collecting data and minimize data collected
European privacy watchdogs have published an opinion addressing the key data protection risks of mobile apps. The document clarifies the EU legal framework applicable to the processing of personal data in apps on smart devices and outlines several obligations in developing and distributing apps on smart devices.
EU to take action against Google by summer
European privacy watchdogs have announced Monday that they are to take action against Google by summer for its privacy policy, which is not in compliance with European privacy legislation.
