Bill Toulas reports: Experian Netherlands has been fined EUR 2.7 million ($3.2 million) for multiple violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says that the credit and analytics services company used improperly personal data collected from multiple sources, both public and private, and did not inform customers. Experian is…
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How a Tax Subpoena in Ohio Tests European Privacy Law
Iain Nash writes: In 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered Eaton Corporation to submit 10 employee performance reviews to the Internal Revenue Service as part of an ongoing investigation into the company’s activities. There was a problem, however: The reviews sat on servers in Dublin, and the company insisted that…
Action against tiny Scottish charity sparks huge ICO row
Decision Marketing reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office has walked straight into a major row up after issuing its first ever fine for the destruction of personal data – in breach of UK GDPR – with some data protection professionals questioning not only the timing of the penalty but whether an obvious cock-up warranted such action…
Italy fines OpenAI and requires public information campaign
Garante, (Italy’s data protector) has fined ChatGPT’s OpenAI for processing users’ personal information “to train ChatGPT without having an adequate legal basis and violated the principle of transparency and the related information obligations towards users.” The fine is 15 million euros. In addition to the fine, OpenAI will have to comply with a six-month information…