The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a 150,000 euros fine on Price Waterhouse Coopers Business SA (PWC BS) for the illegal processing of personal data of its employees, was reported on Tuesday, as per the general regulation for data protection. Read more on amna.gr A copy of the full decision (in English) appears below:
Category: Laws
Domestic Batterers Should Be Tracked on a Watch List
From an opinion piece by Misha Valencia: Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is fatally shot by a current or former partner. Intimate partner homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women in the country, with nearly half of all murdered women killed by a partner. But there are…
European Commission Seeking to Fine Spain and Greece for Failing to Transpose Data Protection Rules Into National Law
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EU court rules websites have data protection obligations if they have a Facebook ‘like’ button
From the European Court of Justice: Nº 99/2019 : 29 July 2019 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-40/17 Fashion ID The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors…