Matthew Petti reports: For years, the U.S. government has bought information on private citizens from commercial data brokers. Now, for the first time ever, American spymasters are admitting that this data is sensitive—but they’re leaving it up to the spy agencies on how to use it. Last week, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines released a…
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Dutch DPA issues guidelines on data scraping
Joke Bodewits of Hogan Lovells writes: On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could affect the way GenAI business should govern their data scraping processes. However it is questionable whether these guidelines will persevere…
Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia. The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive brokers
Seen at GPDP: Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive touts The Privacy Guarantor has imposed a fine of over 79 million euros on Enel Energia for serious shortcomings in the processing of personal data of numerous users in the electricity and gas sector, carried out…
Finnish SA: Administrative fine of € 856,000 for failing to define storage period of customer data
As seen on EDPB: Origin of the case The Finnish Supervisory Authority (SA) investigated the activities of the online retailer Verkkokauppa.com due to a complaint filed by a customer. The controller had required the person to register themselves as a customer before making purchases online. Shopping in the online shop was not possible without creating…