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While regulations shift and threats evolve, the gap between legal obligation and practical action grows wider every day. The FIRST PRIVACY experts break down demanding topics – with sharp analysis, actionable guidance, and a clear view of what actually matters for your organisation.
Cybersecurity has become an increasingly discussed topic in Europe and is more and more valued and controlled on a business level by most companies operating in the EU market. The reason for this rising trend can certainly be traced back to the impressive [...]
Responsible advertising to children (during Christmas time and beyond) in the EU Children are at the heart of Christmas. Many businesses operate in the online world and target their products and services to children, trying to persuade them that they [...]
On 13 December 2022, approximately only 1 month after the signing of President Biden’s Executive Order, the European Commission announced the Draft Adequacy Decision for EU – US Data Transfers. This time-record achievement officially launches the pro [...]
In 2021, media reports raised serious questions about how Facebook was dealing with the collected personal data of around 530 million Facebook users. Between 2018 and 2019, these datasets, which also included the email addresses and mobile phone numbers [...]
Google, the giant U.S. tech company, will pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 U.S. states, which is the largest multi-state privacy settlement with state Attorneys General in the U.S. history. The main reason behind the fine is that the online search engine [...]
The European Commission decided on new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) in June 2021. After 27 December 2022, only these "new" SCCs may be used without exception. What does that mean for companies and organizations? If personal data is transferred to proces [...]
The French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale de L’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has issued a fine of €20 million against Clearview AI (hereafter Clearview), a company that now claims to have more than 30 billion images used for facial recognition. Clearview c [...]
The fine has been issued by the Berlin Supervisory Authority (Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit - BlnBDI) on the 20th of September to an e-Commerce company following to the identification of a conflict of interest among the r [...]
