While researching something else, I found that a Russian court has fined Google for a violation of administrative law. The court’s summary: Постановлением мирового судьи судебного участка N422 Таганского района города Москвы по делу № 5-29/22 об административном правонарушении, предусмотренном ч.2.1 ст. 13.40 КоАП РФ в отношении организации GOOGLE LLC – GOOGLE LLC признан виновным…
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UK: Scotland young persons’ free bus travel scheme — is it “Your papers, please!” time?
Katie Williams reports: Anyone under 22 can now apply for free bus travel. The Free Bus Travel Scheme will come into force on January 31 and allow young people to travel on buses for free. However people have taken to social media to express their frustration after users claimed the website kept crashing. Others have criticised the online application…
New Italian Guidelines on the Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Now in Force
Giulia Romana Mele of Covington and Burling writes: On January 9, 2022, the cookie guidelines (“guidelines”) published by the Italian Supervisory Authority (“Garante”) on July 9, 2021 entered into force. This means that all those companies that have not yet conformed to the guidelines’ provisions should do so promptly, to avoid incurring in future sanctions. The guidelines…
A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
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…