Jason Kelley and David Greene of EFF write: The recently introduced RESTRICT Act (S. 686, Sen. Warner and Sen. Thune) rightfully is causing a lot of concern. This bill is being called a “TikTok ban,” but it’s more complicated than that. As we wrote in our initial review of the bill, the RESTRICT Act would authorize…
EU Prosecutor probes Greek ‘Predatorgate’
Sarantis Michalopoulos reports: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched an investigation into the use of illegal Predator spyware in a wiretapping scandal that has shaken Greek politics, EURACTIV has learnt. Several sources confirmed to EURACTIV that upon the request from MEP Stelios Kouloglou, a member of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee, the inquiry…
Austrian Supervisory Authority Issues Decision on the Collection of Personal Data by Credit Referencing Agency
Dan Cooper and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: On March 24, 2023, the Austrian Supervisory Authority (“Austrian SA”) held that a credit referencing agency (“Agency”) breached the GDPR by unlawfully processing personal data obtained from a third party in order to process it to conduct credit assessments. It decided that the Agency breached…
Fr: Geolocation of rental scooters: CITYSCOOT fined €125,000
From CNIL, France’s data protection regulator: On 16 March 2023, the CNIL imposed a fine of €125,000 on the company CITYSCOOT in particular because it disproportionately infringed on the privacy of its customers by geolocating them almost permanently. In 2020, the CNIL partly focused its investigations on several priority thematic areas related to the everyday concerns…