Reuters reports: China’s cyberspace administration said on Sunday that it had ordered smartphone app stores to stop offering the ride-hailing firm Didi Global Inc’s app after finding that Didi had illegally collected users’ personal data. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on its social media feed that it had ordered Didi to make changes to…
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Dutch Supreme Court rules Ziggo does not have to hand over details of ‘illegal downloaders’
DutchNews.nl reports: Internet company Ziggo does not have to hand over the details of people who ‘illegally downloaded’ a film, according to a Supreme Court ruling. Distributor Dutch Filmworks (DFW) had taken the matter to the Netherlands’ highest court after appeal court judges confirmed in 2019 that client privacy trumps alleged piracy. Read more at…
Norwegian DPA: Fine for accessing former employee’s e-mail inbox and failing to close e-mail inbox
The background for this case is a complaint from a former employee who discovered that their former employer had accessed their e-mail account. The manager of the enterprise had changed the password and logged on to the complainant’s e-mail account every day for a period of six weeks after the employment had ended. The manager…
The Icelandic DPA has fined a company running ice cream parlours for processing employee‘s personal data via video surveillance camera installed in an employee area.
The Icelandic Data Protection Authority has issued an administrative fine in the amount of ISK 5.000.000 (34.000 euros) to an Icelandic company that runs five ice cream parlours. One of the company‘s underage employees lodged a complaint with the Icelandic DPA about an area, used by the employees‘ to change into their work uniform, being…