The CNIL fined DOCTISSIMO €380,000 because it failed to comply with obligations under the GDPR, in particular obtaining consent of individuals to the collection and use of their health data, and because it didn’t comply with the rules on cookies. Background information Following a complaint by the PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL association, the CNIL carried out four…
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Decision by the Austrian SA against Clearview AI Infringements of Articles 5, 6, 9, 27 GDPR
Summary of the Decision Origin of the case Following a complaint the Austrian SA (DSB) issued a decision against the facial recognition company Clearview AI on the 10th of May 2023. The company reportedly owns a database including over 30 billion facial images from all over the world, which are extracted from public web sources (media…
Exclusive: Google accused of breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of potential job candidates for years
David Meyer reported: When Mohamed Maslouh, a London-based contractor, was assigned to enter data into Google’s internal gHire recruitment system last September, he noticed something surprising. The database contained the profiles of thousands of people in the EU and U.K. whose names, phone numbers, personal email addresses and résumés dated back as far as 2011….
Florida Comprehensive State Privacy Law Sent to Governor for Signature
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 4, 2023, the Florida Senate and House of Representatives voted in favor of sending the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”) and other amendments related to government moderation of social media and protection of children in online spaces (S.B. 262) to Governor Ron DeSantis for signature. Unlike the other comprehensive state…