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EUR 10MN fine for infringment of privacy regulations

Following complaints lodged by 170 French Uber drivers with the French human rights organization Ligue des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen (LDH), the LDH lodged a class action complaint with the French Data Protection Authority...

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Awaiting the impact of EU the Digital Services Art

It is now less than three months before the Digital Services Act (DSA) becomes effective on February 17, 2024, which was originally introduced to keep tech giants like Meta and Google...

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University fined due to lack of appropriate TOMs

The technical aspect of data protection is often overlooked by Data Controllers who are most likely to focus on the legal aspects of the issue and fail...

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Record € 1,2 billion fine for Meta for non-GDPR-compliant data transfer to the US

Topic of a previous newsletter was the New EU – US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) which would act as remedy for the abolition of the “Privacy Shield” in 2020 and facilitate data transfers from and to the United States....

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Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) fines Spotify for GDPR violations (Art. 15 GDPR)

We often say to our Customers, that the correct handling of data subject’s access requests (Art. 15 GDPR) - along with the data subject’s deletion requests (Art. 17 GDPR) – is  among the most frequent GDPR-related inquiries...

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Art. 15 GDPR - RIGHT OF ACCESS – Plaintiff RW vs ÖSTERREICHISCHE POST

In the past few months DP-Dock has received a considerable number of inquiries from its customers regarding how to properly handle a data subject’s requested on access to the processing of their personal data (Art. 15 GDPR)...

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GDPR Enforcement: The Real Risks of Non-Compliance

Whereas public supervisory authorities granted an informal grace period to implement the new provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and allocated many resources to awareness-raising campaigns in 2018,...

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How the GDPR Affects Companies Outside the EU

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a major privacy law introduced by the European Union in May 2018, not only shook up the business of data-driven digital service providers but keeps affecting companies...

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Enforcement General Obligations
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Customer Data: GDPR Compliance in Contractual Relationships

Every processing of personal data requires a legal basis such as consent, legitimate interests or legal obligations. In October 2019, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), an advisory body that consists of the data protection supervisory authorities...

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