The Irish data protection authority faced strong criticism fin the past for failing to apply GDPR sanctions to Big Tech. Let’s consider that the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) supervises most big U.S. and Chinese tech firms. The lack of action by the authority becomes a significant issue. However, with this new decision, the Irish...
The settlement is the first case where the Attorney General has exercised its authority under the CCPA. Read more on JDSupra
The CNIL has imposed a fine of 600,000 euros on ACCOR for having carried out commercial prospecting without the concerned data subjects’ consent and for not respecting the rights of customers and prospects. Read More
Aljazeera reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has fined Didi with about USD 1.2bn for “egregious” violations of data security rules, since it found that it had illegally collected customer information since 2015 and handled data in a way that endangered national security. Among the breaches sanctioned by CAC are illegal storage of...
The Russian court issued a fine of 1 million rubles to Zoom Video Communications and a sanctionn of 2 million rubles to Apple Inc. after confirming that the storage and processing of personal data of Russian users was carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation. Read more here (source in Russian only).
The Finnish Data Protection Commission has fined Otavamedia with €85.000 for not adequately guaranteeing responses to users requests or enquiries concerning their data protection rights. In the case at hand Otavamedia received some data protection requests which were not responded due to a technical issue in the e-mail redirect when service providers were changed. Due...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered CafePress t-shirt and merchandise site former owner to pay a USD 500,000 fine for a data breach it suffered in 2018, but which it also covered up, that impacted more than 23 million customers. The FTC found out that CAfe Press failed to protect their personal data,...
H&L Business Consulting was fined 80,000 GBP by the British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending thousands of unsolicited marketing text messages. H&L was discovered to have sent 378,538 spam marketing messages between January and July 2020, resulting in over 300 complaints. The communications offered a “government-backed” debt management organisation that the Financial Conduct Authority...
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