Vincent Manancourt reports: France’s data protection authority has fined agribusiness Monsanto €400,000 for privacy violations. In a statement Wednesday, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) said the Bayer-owned company had infringed European privacy rules by not informing people that it had recorded their information in a lobbying file. Read more on Politico.
Category: Non-U.S.
Israeli government raids NSO Group offices
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Officials from multiple Israeli government agencies have raided today the offices of surveillance software vendor NSO Group, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced today. Read more on The Record.
Spanish DPA sets a new standard in GDPR enforcement with record fines
Pilar Rodríguez Lopez, Astrid Hardy, Diego Zapatero Méndez, and Diana Lopez of DAC Beachcroft write: It has been over three years since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on 25 May 2018. Since coming into force, it has been reported that over EUR 292m of fines have been issued for wide-ranging infringements…
VPN servers seized by Ukrainian authorities weren’t encrypted
Dan Goodin reports: Privacy-tools-seller Windscribe said it failed to encrypt company VPN servers that were recently confiscated by authorities in Ukraine, a lapse that made it possible for the authorities to impersonate Windscribe servers and capture and decrypt traffic passing through them. The Ontario, Canada-based company said earlier this month that two servers hosted in Ukraine…