Melanie Ptok reports: A Luxembourg court has ordered Amazon to pay a €746 million fine imposed for data protection breaches by the national data watchdog, throwing out an appeal brought by the online retail giant. The administrative court dismissed the appeal against the penalty in a hearing on Tuesday, still the second-largest ever imposed since…
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What could Apple’s legal challenge mean for data protection?
Dan Milmo explains: Apple will challenge a UK government demand to access encrypted customer data at a Royal Courts of Justice hearing in London on Friday.< The appeal will be considered by the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates claims that the domestic intelligence services have acted unlawfully. What is the UK government asking Apple to do? The…
Catalan court gives green light to NSO indictment
As seen on Risky Business News: A court in the Spanish region of Catalonia ordered this week that prosecutors indict three executives at Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The court found that the three executives facilitated the unlawful surveillance of 63 Catalans following anti-government protests in the mid-2010s. The executives are NSO founders Shalev Hulio and Omri…
Re-use of Patient Data in Scientific Research to Train AI Systems — Important GDPR Considerations
Séverine Bouvy of Taylor Wessing writes: In the discovery phase of scientific research, AI systems can be used to review patents and identify potential new medicines for clinical trials. If an organisation develops its own AI system internally without using patient data, the AI Act should not apply, as it would under the research exemption….