Another significant fine for the lack of adequate security measures on personal data was recently issued by a European Supervisory Authority (SA) to a controller responsible for private customers´ data. In the present case, the Swedish Supervisory [...]
On the 20th of June 2023 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted the recommendations 01/2022 on the application for approval and on the elements and principles to be found in the Controller Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs or more specific BCR [...]
In April 2023 the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has fined the famous fashion brand Benetton with 240,000 Euros for violations of the GDPR related to marketing practices involving consumer data. The [...]
Following the massive number of draft complaints (over 500) to companies implementing allegedly unlawful cookie banners issued in May 2021 by the non-profit organization NOYB, the EDPB decided to set up a task force composed of delegations of the EU Supervisory [...]
At the end of last year, in the context of setting the 2023 budget, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données/ Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit or APD) has highlighted the main topics that will be the focus of this year’s [...]
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 [...]
According to a decision of the Spanish Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo) of July 2022, filing a request to exercise the data subject rights with the data controller is not a prerequisite for filing a complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority for [...]
The Flemish Authorities initially considered the specific encryption tools as a valid supplementary measure in addition to the European Standard contractual clauses (SCCs). The measure was applied by a European branch of a US company using AWS cloud. [...]
