Privacy News & Issues
From the Dutch Data Protection Authority: Netflix did not give customers sufficient information about what the company does with their personal data between 2018 and 2020. And the information that Netflix did give was unclear on some points. For this reason, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) is imposing a fine of 4.75 million…
Suzanne Smalley reports: France’s data privacy regulator (CNIL) has fined the country’s biggest internet provider €50 million ($53 million) for sending customers ads they didn’t ask for and for continuing to use tracking code to monitor users’ activities even after they withdrew consent for the practice. The telecom giant Orange S.A. offers an electronic messaging…
The East African country is set to introduce fresh audit rules that will put data controllers further under the microscope. Dippy Singh reports: Kenya has unveiled its new data protection draft rules that will impose stricter regulations on data controllers in a bid to bolster the privacy of its citizens. The Office of the Data…
Posti is the Finnish mail and package delivery service. The Finnish State exercises the shareholder’s decision-making power over it. On December 6, the European Data Protection Board announced a decision by the Finnish Supervisory Authority that imposed a monetary penalty of 2.4 million euros and a reprimand. As EDPB summarizes the case: The Finnish Supervisory…