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IRELAND FINES WHATAPP €225M FOR BREAKING GDPR
WhatsApp was fined a record €225m by the Irish data protection regulator after the EU privacy watchdog pressured Ireland to raise the penalty for the company’s privacy breaches. It is a vastly substantial increase in fine from the first proposed range of between €30 to €50 million (approx. US$35.6
WORKING WITH THE GDPR AND CONSENT MECHANISMS IN EUROPE
In this day and age, we hear a lot of people talking about “consent”. Like many other things in life, there are different views of opinion and different takes on the topic. This is only complicated further when working with consent across different countries in Europe. In this blog post,
PRIVACY SHIELD BETWEEN THE EU AND THE US BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Big news last week in the privacy world. The European Court of Justice has annulled the EU-US Privacy Shield, the data exchange treaty between the two parties. This ruling follows a complaint by privacy activist Maximilian Schrems (also known from the Schrems I judgment, which annulled the ‘Safe Harbour Decision’).
PRIVACY SHIELD TUSSEN DE EU EN DE VS TERUG NAAR DE TEKENTAFEL
Groot nieuws afgelopen week in de privacy wereld. Het Europees Hof van Justitie heeft immers het EU-US Privacy Shield, het gegevensuitwisselingsverdrag tussen beide, nietig verklaard. Deze uitspraak komt er na een klacht van privacy-activist, Maximilian Schrems (ook wel bekend van het Schrems I-arrest, waarbij het de ‘Safe Harbour Decision’ werd
FACEBOOK V. CONSUMENTENBOND AND DATA PRIVACY STICHTING
In the Netherlands, the Consumentenbond (Dutch Consumers’ Association) and the Data Privacy Stichting (Dutch Data Privacy Foundation) have entered into a partnership to hold Facebook responsible for violating the privacy of their users. This has manifested itself in the summons of Facebook in which both parties aim to obtain compensation
FACEBOOK V. CONSUMENTENBOND EN DATA PRIVACY STICHTING
In Nederland zijn de Consumentenbond en de Data Privacy Stichting een samenwerkingsverband aangegaan om Facebook verantwoordelijk te houden voor het schenden van de privacy van hun gebruikers. Dit heeft zich geuit in de dagvaarding van Facebook waarbij beide partijen tot doel hebben een compensatie te bekomen voor iedere gebruiker of