Data protection & ICT

French supervisory authority fines Google €100m and Amazon €35m for cookies’ breaches

France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon for dropping tracking cookies...

Vodafone fined over 12 million Euros for aggressive telemarketing practices

The Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Garante) imposed a...

EDPB published awaited recommendations on supplementary measures

On November 11, European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published their anxiously-awaited recommendations on measures that...

How GDPR affects mergers & acquisitions?

In the second quarter of 2020 alone, investors completed €563.6 billion worth of mergers and...

Klarna’ s case: the form of data subject’s consent while doing digital marketing campaigns matters

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) got many inquiries from people who got newsletters from the...

Supervisory authority imposed a 35 million euro fine for H&M for the breaches of GDPR while processing personal employee’s datat

The Hamburg data protection authority imposed a fine of EUR 35 258 707.95 on the...

Transfer of personal data from EEA to the United Kingdom

Since 1 February, 2020, the United Kingdom has withdrawn from the European Union and has...

Interplay between the GDPR and PSD2

Taking into the account that PSD2 touches the subject of data protection, European Data Protection...

The Court of Justice of the EU strikes down key rules of U.S.-EU data transfer

On July 16, 2020 in a landmark decision, the Court of Justice of the European...

German State Data Protection Commissioner imposed 1.2 million € GDPR fine

The German State Data Protection Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg (“LfDI Ba-Wü”) imposed a GDPR fine of...

How the European Union’s GDPR Rules Impact Artificial Intelligence?

Recently the European Parliamentary Research Service had issued study “The impact of the General Data Protection...

GDPR fines. What can we learn from mistakes? April-May 2020

Unknown company Imposed fine. The Netherlands Supervisory Authority for Data Protection (AP) has imposed a...