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Meta receives highest ever GDPR fine
...Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta Platforms (who operate Facebook) €1.2billion for GDPR breaches, the largest GDPR fine to date. The fine resulted from international personal data tran...
ICO fines online recruitment agency £130,000 for unlawful marketing
...data controllers and data processors, must comply with applicable data protection legislation. They should audit their data processing activities, including marketing, to check that they are operating...
Looking forward to the year ahead - Workplace law changes and how employers can prepare
...Data Protection Business Immigration Pensions Financial Services
ICO reprimands seven organisations for mishandling Data Subject Access Requests
...Data subject access requests Under data protection legislation, individuals are entitled to make a subject access request to find out whether an organisation is processing their personal data and...
Privacy Shield 2.0: one step closer to implementation
...data exporters can base their data transfers to the United States” according the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Therefore, as it stands, data transfers from the EU to the US still require the ...
Facebook’s Meta fined €17 Million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission
...Data Protection Commission Facebook data breachesFacebook’s parent company Meta has been fined 17 million euros for breaching EU privacy rules. Meta’s failures Following twelve differe...
Algorithms in the workplace - People not Processes
...data protection and consent. This means that some of these tools may not actually be legally suitable for a UK workplace where automated decisions in respect of data give rise to various data pri...
ICO fines City Law firm £98,000 for data breaches following ransomware attack
...data breaches following ransomware attack Security measures insufficient The UK Data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), has fined Tuckers Solicitors £98,000 for mult...
Facebook and Google user tracking controls attract €210 million fine
...data protection and using the powers available to it. The CNIL’s highest fines to date have all concerned use of cookies. It appears that the increased action by data authorities across Europe a...
EU gig economy workers could be reclassified as employees
...protection, collective bargaining, sick pay and pensions. Under the proposals, assessment of employment status will be based on the facts with less attention paid to the contract or other documents. ...
ICO proposes to fine Clearview £17 million for data protection breaches
...data being retained indefinitely Have a lawful reason for collecting the information Meet the higher data protection standards required for biometric data (classed as ‘special category data’ und...
Data subject access requests – Court rules on confidentiality in redacted materials
Data subject access requests – Court rules on confidentiality in redacted materials The recent court decision in London Borough of Lambeth v AM considers the confidential nature of redactions in subje...
Employment law and data transfers post-Brexit
...data transfers post-Brexit Following the signature of the EU trade and cooperation agreement in December last year, Katie Mahoney and Mike Hibberd consider the implications for employment and dat...
Accidental data breaches: High Court clarifies causes of action
...data security duty on the defendant, and there is no duty of care in negligence for a data controller’s conduct where that conduct is covered by the data protection legislation. DSG’s applic...
Amazon fined record £636 million for GDPR breaches
...Data Protection (the CNPD). The proposed fine was significantly higher than any previous fine issued by EU authorities for data protection breaches but needed to be agreed between the EU authorities. ...
Using Personal Emails for Business Purposes: The Pitfalls
...data protection team if you have any questions around the use of personal email accounts or require any data protection policies and training. To see all our services visit our main data protection an...
Data transfers: draft adequacy decision published
Data transfers: draft adequacy decision published On 19 February 2021, the European Commission published its draft adequacy decision for data transfers from the EEA to the UK. This is the first step i...
European Commission Adopts UK Adequacy Decisions for Data Transfers
...data between the UK and EU (and the EEA). However, any data transfers still need to be subject to the obligations under the GDPR, UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and any data transfers beyond the...
Data transfers to the EU: Update
Data transfers to the EU: Update European Union governments have agreed that UK standards for data protection are sufficiently high to allow personal data to be transferred freely from the EU to the U...
Amazon faces £300 million fine for GDPR breaches
...Data Protection Commission, the CNPD, has proposed fining Amazon more than $425 million, approximately £300 million, for alleged GDPR breaches relating to Amazon’s collection and use of personal data....