Enforcement

In Simpson v. Facebook, Inc., the Ontario Divisional Court upheld the dismissal of the plaintiff’s certification motion against Facebook in a proposed class action alleging that the personal data of Canadian Facebook users was improperly shared with the Cambridge Analytica Group (“Cambridge Analytica”). The Divisional Court concluded that the action was…

The B.C. Supreme Court recently certified a class action proceeding against Hyp3R Inc. (“Hyp3R”),[1] a U.S.-based marketing firm that collected Canadian Instagram users’ personal information in breach of the platform’s policies. The Court also ordered Hyp3R to pay more than $24 million in damages. Background Instagram permits users to share…

The Belgian Data Protection Authority fined IAB Europe 250,000 euros Wednesday, ruling its Transparency and Consent Framework, used by much of the advertising industry in the European Union, does not comply with several EU General Data Protection Regulation provisions. Through data processing under the TCF, which “facilitates the management of…

1. Amazon – €746 million Amazon was handed a mammoth €746 million EU GDPR fine by Luxembourg’s National Commission for Data Protection in July 2021 and it dwarfs all previous breaches. The online retail behemoth has its EU base in Luxembourg and it has come under scrutiny in recent years…

France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet’s Google a record €150-million ($169-million) for making it difficult for internet users to refuse online trackers known as cookies. Meta Platforms’ Facebook was also fined €60-million for the same reason, the CNIL said. Internet users’ prior consent for the use…

Monday, July 19, 2021 Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov SAN FRANCISCO – A year after enforcement of the nation’s toughest privacy law began, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced successful enforcement efforts and urged more Californians to take advantage of their new rights. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides consumers with groundbreaking…

Italy’s data protection authority Garante on Tuesday announced its latest fine against a company under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for aggressive telemarketing. Sky Italia was ordered to pay nearly €3.3 million (U.S. $3.8 million) for allegedly misusing customer data to make unwanted promotional phone calls. The figure, ordered…

In Germany, they call him the “Facebook hunter”. He’s been described as one of Europe’s most powerful protectors of data privacy, has locked horns with US tech titans, and earned a troublemaker reputation across Europe. In over a decade as the data protection commissioner for the German city-state of Hamburg,…

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said on Monday that it would fine Grindr, the world’s most popular gay dating app, 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7 million, for illegally disclosing private details about its users to advertising companies. The agency said the app had transmitted users’ precise locations, user-tracking…

Getty Images France’s data protection agency, the CNIL,  has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. Google  has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35 million (~$42 million) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the…