WhatsApp fined €5.5 million by Irish
GDPR kicks in making Meta's eyes water
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission backed a German complaint against WhatsApp and slapped a €5.5 million fine on the company.
Irish regulators kick Meta with fine
Made a mess of bottom line
Irish regulators kicked Facebook parent Meta in its private assets with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned the company from forcing European users to agree to personalised ads.
Germans ban Office 345 from schools
Fears that it breaks GDPR
The German government has banned the use of Microsoft Office 345 over concerns that it might shuffle data to America where it might be used by US spooks.
Employers not allowed to use PCs to spy on employees
US company claimed that video surveillance was the same as working in the office
A US company that thought it was acceptable to spy on an employee working at home for nine hours of the day found that the European courts disagreed.
Google Analytics breaks GDPR
All hell about to break lose
The use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France -- after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month.
Facebook threatens to pull out of EU
Unless it is allowed to break privacy law
Social notworking group Facebook is throwing its toys out of the pram and threatening to pull out of the EU unless it is allowed to break its GDPR laws.
UK wants to abandon GDPR
Never mind the food shortages, let's dismantle something rather good under Brexit
The UK government wants to dismantle European privacy law under its Brexit reforms claiming that it was all about “irritating cookie popups and consent requests”.
Nearly half of UK business had a data breach
GDPR exposed holes
Almost half (43 percent) of UK organisations have reported a data breach (actual or potential) to the ICO since GDPR came into effect, according to a survey run by Apricorn.
Italians fined the most for GDPR violations
Italians ignoring laws? tell me it isn't so
New research released today by Finbold reveals that Italians are shelling out the most for fines under the European privacy law.
GDPR blocks extreme monitoring plans for coronavirus
Government and employers are still not allowed to spy on you
While Europe’s privacy rules do not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic the legislator's watchdogs have warned that mass tracking of people’s movements and contacts using smartphone location data is right out.