Enforcement

The UK’s data regulator hasn’t done enough to stop the government from disregarding fundamental privacy rights during the pandemic, a cross-party group of 20 opposition MPs has said. The claims come in a letter (PDF) sent to Elizabeth Denham, the head of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with the MPs…

I.         The Striking Difference Between Schrems I and Schrems II It would be misleading to view last week’s Schrems II[1] decision as only having an effect similar to that of the Schrems I[2] decision in 2015. While Schrems I invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbor treaty for cross-Atlantic data transfer, organisations still…

On 16 July, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck down the controversial Privacy Shield arrangement for transferring data from the EU to the US. Cue widespread alarm as businesses reliant on such transfers scrambled to work out what other solutions were available. Fortunately the CJEU also clarified that Standard…

Twitter said on Monday that it could be fined between $150 million and $250 million for using customer phone numbers and email addresses for targeted advertising.   In an SEC filing, Twitter said the Federal Trade Commission sent it a complaint on July 28 regarding its use of data “provided for…

The EDPB (European Data Protection Board) produced a Frequently Asked Question document on July 23, 2020, after the CJEU ruling regarding Schrems II. Questions include: 3) Is there any grace period during which I can keep on transferring data to the U.S. without assessing my legal basis for the transfer?…

Google, Facebook and other digital platforms could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if they fail to comply with a news media bargaining code released by Australia’s competition regulator on Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was asked to develop the mandatory code in…

The reporting requirements for listed companies may have given a strong hint as to how much the ICO will fine British Airways (BA) for its data breach.  Spoiler alert:  it’s likely to be far less than the £184 million announced a year ago, and could be as little as 10%…

The Tim Hortons breakfast empire is feeling the heat in its native Canada over the data collection practices of its mobile app. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), along with the privacy commissioners of the provinces of Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia is launching an investigation to…

The European Union’s top court struck down a key method used by Facebook Inc. and other companies to transfer data across the Atlantic amid fears over potential U.S. surveillance. Thursday’s decision by the EU Court of Justice on the so-called Privacy Shield means thousands of businesses that ship commercial data…

Inthe past when you first studied a company, you tried to figure out how it might perform in the months, quarters, and years ahead. But right now in the crony capitalism era, where we continue to witness one-man operations exposing big names as frauds, we need to acknowledge whether companies…