Top news of the week: 01.12.2021.
Data Privacy
ICO issues provisional view to fine Clearview AI Inc over £17 million
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today announced its provisional intent to impose a potential fine of just over £17 million on Clearview AI Inc – a company that describes ...
France: The CNIL publishes a practical guide on Data Protection Officers
On 16 November 2021, the French data protection supervisory authority (the “CNIL”) published a practical guide (“Guide”) on Data Protection Officers (“DPOs”). The Guide provides a reminder ...
“EU AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY FUNDAMENTALS” COURSE WEEK 6: A CYBERSECURITY READING OF THE GDPR
Today my lecture in the “EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals” course will present a cybersecurity reading of the GDPR. After having learned about computer security technology and its ...
Tracking in apps' privacy policies
Data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), usually requires a privacy policy before data can be collected from individuals. We analysed 15,145 privacy ...
ICCL launches European Ombudsman complaint against European Commission’s failure to take Ireland to court over the GDPR.
ICCL has launched a formal complaint against the European Commission before the European Ombudsman. The Commission has failed to monitor the application of the GDPR, and to intervene ...
EU ideas for transparency of political content targeting
Europe is continuing its fight against mechanised political influence, propaganda, disinformation. Package restricting the use of targeted political ads is the new chapter. In this note, I ...
DPO enforcement programme – an additional 170 organisations brought into compliance
The Data Protection Commission has successfully completed the most recent stage in its Data Protection Officer (DPO) enforcement programme, aimed at improving compliance with Article 37 of ...
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Data Protection is privacy applied to information about living people. Data protection requires information security, but only as a small feature in a broad landscape of human …