“If you’re going to see real enforcement — aggressive, early, decisive enforcement action — early on, it will deal with kids,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, speaking during a
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“It is very important for businesses to start thinking about compliance now. From my perspective, we are getting ready for enforcement in parallel with our rule-making process.” — Deputy California
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The $5 billion fine levied against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission is certainly headline news, but it also contains detailed requirements for privacy and information security governance and accountability
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Italian Data protection Authority, Garante privacy, ordered a company that did not acquire granular consent for marketing from members of its loyalty programs to:
(i) stop processing personal data for
“European Union privacy regulators are ramping up enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation as the bloc’s comprehensive privacy regime heads into its second year,” write Bloomberg’s Sara Merken and
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Enforcement is coming – says CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority.
CNIL published its enforcement priorities for 2019. CNIL will no longer refrain from enforcing new obligations imposed by GDPR,
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How has GDPR enforcement played out in the past year?
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteitpersoonsgegevens, or AP) recently published a report on its 2018 activities.
The report highlights the
Since May 25, 2018, 206,326(!) GDPR cases have been reported by Supervisory Authorities (SAs) from 31 European Economic Area (EEA) countries.
Of those, 94,622 were initiated by individual complaints and
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Now serving complaint #6241…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) has published guidelines on how it will prioritize the handling of complaints filed with it under the EU General
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A total of 41 fines have reportedly been issued for GDPR violations across the various German states.
Violations included:
Continue Reading German States Issue 41 Fines for GDPR Violations