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1–2 minutesMichigan Personal Data Privacy Act
Michigan Personal Data Privacy Act: Senate Bill (SB) 1182 for a Personal Data Privacy Act was introduced to the Michigan Senate on 27 September 2022.…
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Twitch: Hacker Accessed Company’s Servers
Amazon-owned video game broadcasting service Twitch has acknowledged a serious data breach. Twitch claims that a hacker broke into the service’s servers. Due to…
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GDPR Consent Breaches and 60 million euro Fines for adtech giant in France
The French DPA issued a €60 million preliminary warning of a fine against the advertising technology company ‘Criteo’ for violations of the GDPR rules regulating…
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Google to Pay $60 Million in Fines
In response to a lengthy legal battle with Australia’s competition authority over misleading users about collecting their personal location data, Google has agreed to pay…
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WhatsApp Won’t Lower Security for Governments
WhatsApp’s CEO has stated that the company will not “lower the security” of its messenger service. WhatsApp has announced that it will not fall to…
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EU Investigating Google Play Store
Brussels has sent questionnaires to Google’s competitors, scrutinizing billing terms and developer fees for the Google Play Store. According to two people familiar with the…
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Brazil to Drop GDPR Rules on Data Transfers
The Brazilian DPA (ANPD) is examining ways to re-regulate international data transfers, moving away from the present GDPR-inspired restrictions. The Brazilian DPA has announced that it…
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Garante Blocks TikTok Ads
Tik Tok Ads: the Garante warns against ‘personalized’ ads based on legitimate interest. The legal basis is inadequate, and there is the risk that the…
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Garante fines company €3,000 for unlawful employee monitoring
The Italian Garante issued Order No. 178, which fined an Italian automotive business € 3,000 for unlawful employee monitoring. In short: Following a report filed…
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GDPR Compliance in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic DPA conducted an annual audit program to ensure GDPR compliance in terms of cookie processing. The Authority’s president stated that: if there…
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Failing to delete data on 685,000 data subjects
Danish DPA fines a company for retaining/failing to delete data on 685,000 former book club members €134,415 (DKK 1mio). The Danish DPA notified Gyldendal A/S…
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