Massive GDPR fine for not verifying user’s consent This June, the CNIL, France’s Data Protection Authority sanctioned CRITEO, a company that specializes in targeted advertising with a fine of 40 million EUR. The company’s goal is to gather cookies and use them to identify the most suitable advertiser and product to display advertisements to specific […]
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The month of May brought along 2 large fines for GDPR infringements. CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, issued a subsequent 5.2 million EUR fine for CLEARVIEW AI, a company which collects photos from a wide range of websites and then sells access to its database of images. The company was first fined with 20 […]
Following the large Tik Tok fine at the beginning of April, the rest of the month was quite calm in terms of GDPR fines. However, there is one that struck out the most: Vodafone Spain was fined for failing to verify the identity of a third party who requested a duplicate of a user’s SIM […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined Tik Tok with 14.5 million EUR for several breaches, including using children’s data without parental consent. The UK data protection law states that no children under the age of 13 are allowed to create accounts on Tik Tok without parental consent. However, Tik Tok failed to review the created […]
A fine just shy of 1 million EUR was applied to Sats, one of the largest fitness centers in the Nordic region, with locations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority had received several complaints about the data processor between 2018 and 2021, all regarding the company’s failure to comply […]
Yet another GDPR fine for Whatsapp Ireland Whatsapp Ireland has been hit with a penalty of 5.5 million EUR for failing to have a lawful basis for certain types of personal data processing. As a result of the GDPR coming into operation in 2018, Whatsapp updated its Terms of Service and informed users that if […]
2023 started in a costly manner for Meta, with two fines totalling 390 million EUR. The fines mark the conclusion of two lengthy investigations into Meta by the Irish regulator, which had been criticized over delays in the process. What came under scrutiny this time was the company’s practices related to users’ consent to personalized […]
The end of November brought Meta a fine of 265 million euro by the Irish Data Protection Commission, the tech giant’s lead regulator for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adding up to 1 billion EUR in fines relating to breaching the GDPR over the last 3 months. The fine came as a […]
The end of October brought in a major 525.000 EUR GDPR fine applied to Techpump Solutions S.L. Techpump Solutions is the owner of different internet domains containing adult content. The main reason behind the fine was that the actual treatment of personal data did not correspond to the one mentioned in the company’s privacy policy. […]
Meta Platforms Inc., was fined 405 million euro, the largest GDPR fine to have ever been received by the company and the second largest fine ever issued by the Irish Data Protection Authority. The Autority’s investigation revealed that Instagram was disclosing email addresses and/or phone numbers belonging to children using the Instagram business account feature […]