Enforcement

Canada’s anti-spam law has been the target of intense criticism since its introduction in 2009 as the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. Even after the law passed in 2010, there was no shortage of effort to delay the regulations needed to put it into effect. Once it finally took effect in…

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fines video game publisher HyperBeard $150,000 for illegally collecting children’s data You shouldn’t and can’t save children’s data!!! This is not much difficult to understand but companies have over the years been disregarding this basic tech tenet with impunity. First, it was TikTok who is being…

The GDPR fines tracker was initially created as an in-house tool to aid the research proces because our writers had found it difficult to get accurate breakdowns of statistics that could be used within articles. We quickly decided that turning the tool into a referencable page would not only speed…

(Bloomberg) — Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards…

U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order targeting Internet platforms after Twitter fact-checked one of his tweets on mail-in voting (the company followed up with a warning on another tweet earlier today involving glorifying violence). The order cannot simply reverse current U.S. law, but it encourages U.S. regulators…

Brussels, BE — Today, Access Now releases a report which finds critical flaws in the enforcement of the EU flagship data protection law. Two years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, official data show that Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), crippled by a lack of resources, tight…

22nd May 2020 The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today submitted a draft decision to other concerned Supervisory Authorities, in accordance with Article 60 of the GDPR, in relation to an inquiry it has completed into Twitter International Company, a data controller based in Ireland. This own-volition inquiry was…

The European Data Protection Board, the EU’s umbrella organisation overseeing the application of EU data protection rules across the bloc, has voiced its concern over the suspension of EU data protection rights in Hungary. In early May, the Hungarian government put forward plans to suspend obligations to a number of…

As Ireland’s data protection authority was closing in late last year on its first major penalty against Facebook over alleged privacy abuses, the agency — a key global enforcer of data protection rules — reshuffled its top team, replacing a senior official in charge of its most high-profile cases. Dale…

Facebook has been ordered to pay a $9-million penalty after making “false or misleading claims about the privacy of Canadians’ personal information,” according to a news release from the Competition Bureau. The decision follows an investigation into the social media company’s privacy practices between 2012 and 2018. The Competition Bureau…