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According to this article by GamingTechLaw, Meta should have paid VAT for data acquired from Italian users when they sign up to the Meta-owned platforms. The position of the Italian Public Prosectur lays to the company’s profits gained by the usage of those data for profiled advertising. Experts say that the effects of this investigation...
Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has issued a statement to celebrate the Canada Data Privacy Week with the concrete example of the effectiveness of its office operations. The Commissioner detailed that Home Depot was transferring data traffic information of its customers to Meta, without the consent of the customers. The Commissioner had investigated...
ResourcesJanuary 25, 2023Meta fined for privacy violations by the San Marino DPA
Meta Inc. lost the appeal against a decision of the San Marino DPA, which fined the social media for the illicit diffusion of personal data of about 12,700 citizens of San Marino via the social media Facebook. The hack of data happened in 2019, when personal data of about 533m individuals were stolen and published...
ResourcesJanuary 19, 2023Irish DPC announces a EUR 5.5m fine against WhatsApp for illicit consent harvest
WhatsApp / META has announced that it will appeal the Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced fine of 5.5 million euros for violations of EU GDPR transparency requirements and for forcing the WhatsApp users to consent to the processing of their data in the Terms of Service. The violations refer to the violation of the...
ResourcesJanuary 4, 2023Facebook and Instagram decisions in the EU revolutionary impact on behavioural advertising
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued two binding dispute resolution decisions of 5 December 2022, as a consequence of which the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA) has adopted on 4 January 2023 its decisions regarding Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, ‘Meta IE’). These decisions are the result of complaint-based inquiries into...
NewsNovember 28, 2022Irish DPC to fine Meta €265m
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta due to a data breach affecting millions of Facebook users’ personal data. Read more
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