Apostolis Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, Giacomo Zandonini, and Daniel Howden report: The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) targets what…
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Cookies: the CNIL sanctions GOOGLE up to 150 million euros and FACEBOOK up to 60 million euros for non-compliance with the law
The following is a Google machine translation of a CNIL press release: The restricted formation, body of the CNIL responsible for pronouncing sanctions, noted, following checks, that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com offer a button to immediately accept cookies. On the other hand, they do not set up an equivalent solution (button or other) to…
Administrative fine imposed on psychotherapy centre Vastaamo for data protection violations
A hack and extortion attempt involving the psychotherapy center in Vastaamo, Finland was — and remains — one of the worst breaches ever covered on PogoWasRight.org and DataBreaches.net because it involved the sensitive mental health information of tens of thousands of patients and a coverup by an executive of the clinic. Now EDPB has posted…
EFF Condemns the Unjust Conviction and Sentencing of Activist and Friend Alaa Abd El Fattah
Karen Gullo writes: EFF is deeply saddened and angered by the news that our friend, Egyptian blogger, coder, and free speech activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, long a target of oppression by Egypt’s successive authoritarian regimes, was sentenced to five years in prison by an emergency state security court just before the holidays. According to media reports and social…