The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) has taken urgent action against Clothoff, an AI-powered app capable of generating hyper-realistic “deep nude” images based on pictures of real people. On 3 October the regulator has issued an immediate order b [...]
Recently, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed significant fines totaling in £550,000 against two companies relying on unlawful automated marketing calls, or “robo calls” (read here). Green Spark Energy Ltd was fined £250,0 [...]
In the past years, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei dati personali) has made clear statements towards big technology companies introducing their services in Italy, prior to the verification of GDPR and Italian Data [...]
More than four years after the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) came into force, companies and organizations that process personal data inside and outside the EU have come to realize the benefits that a privacy-friendly business management [...]
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 [...]
Not that long ago, in January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) entered into force. Shortly after that, a proposition was made to amend the CCPA, introducing a new privacy law in California, the CPRA. We reported here. Californians once more [...]
The data protection authority (DPA) of the German federal state of Hamburg recently opened administrative proceedings against Google. It relates to Google’s “Google Assistant” System, the natural language assistant behind the “Google Home” speaker, and tra [...]
