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On June 30, last, the District Court of Amsterdam (Rechtbank Amsterdam) provided its ruling on the preliminary issues submitted by Facebook Inc. in the case submitted by the Data Privacy Stichting (on behalf of Facebook users) with the support of the Du [...]
Court of Appeal of the United Kingdom holds the ‘immigration exemption’ under the Data Protection Act 2018 as unlawful On May 26, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the United Kingdom handed down its judgment in the case of R (Open Rights Group and the3million) v Secret [...]
The 1st of July 2021 the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) will come completely into force; therefore, companies and multinationals located within South Africa shall be liable for becoming POPIA compliant. This regulation, along with [...]
The Portuguese Data Protection Commission (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados – CNPD) has ordered the Portuguese office of national statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estatística - INE) to suspend within 12 hours the transfer of personal data from [...]
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has recently issued a fine of €475,000 to the online touristic operator Booking.com for having notified a data breach to the DPA with a sensible delay. The data breach The staff of about 40 Hotels located in the Un [...]
Fine of 440.000 EUR imposed by Autoriteitspersoonsgegevens on Dutch Hospital. Back in the lovely Spring of 2019, the Autoriteitspersoongegevens (‘AP’) started investigations against the Onze Lieve Vrouwen Gasthuis (‘OLVG’). The OLVG is an educational hospital [...]
The Regensburg (Bavaria) Regional Court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for manslaughter based on evidence from voice recordings of an Alexa smart speaker. The Case The court found the perpetrator –reportedly a notorious stalker– guilty of [...]
Over 300 million social account records, originating from several platforms including Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, were recently exposed through a massive data leak from the cloud of SocialArks. More than 400GB of public and private account data [...]
