GDPR

The Norwegian privacy watchdog has fined dating app Grindr 6.3 million euros for violation of the privacy law. Grindr illegally shared data with third parties for marketing purposes. The fine is lower than the DPA proposed to hand out a…

Britain's privacy watchdog plans to fine Clearview £17 million. The company allegedly violated British privacy law by applying facial recognition to citizens in the country.The Information Commissioner's Office of ICO writes that this is…

The European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has voted in favor of the Digital Markets Act that aims to limit the power of large tech companies with a gatekeeper position. The European Parliament will…

Privacy activist Max Schrems' noyb foundation has filed a corruption complaint against the Irish privacy regulator. The Data Protection Commissioner in the country is said to have engaged in 'procedural extortion' by asking noyb to step…

WhatsApp will expand its privacy statement with more explanation about what data is collected and what data other parties receive from the chat service. WhatsApp is doing so following the Irish GDPR fine of 225 million euros. The…

Privacy foundation Noyb of activist Max Schrems has filed a GDPR complaint against Grindr. When requesting someone's personal information, the dating app asks for a photo of both the identity card and the e-mail address. According to…

The carnival festival 11devande11de will use facial recognition technology so that carnival goers can get onto the site faster. It is not mandatory for visitors to have their faces scanned.Facial recognition works via the People Flows…

Web retailer Amazon has lodged an objection to the fine of 746 million euros it received earlier this year from a Luxembourg regulator. Supervisor CNPD imposed the fine for violations of the European GDPR privacy directive.Amazon has…

The Irish data regulator wants to fine Facebook 36 million euros. That is much lower than most European privacy regulators want. The DPC states that users voluntarily provide data to Facebook and the fine is therefore low.This is…

Facebook will give its European users more control and insight over collected cookies through an expanded banner and new settings menu. The company says it does this to be in line with the GDPR and the European e-privacy guidelines.The…