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The new directives from the European Union are making life more difficult for Estonian entrepreneurs again

March 13, 2024
Data protection requirements are becoming more complex in the European Union once again, and the European Court has begun to...
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CEO of a privacy startup: The year brings significant changes in the field of data protection

March 13, 2024
28th of January was International Data Protection Day, which reminds us that data protection is a daily responsibility in every company processing...
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Introducing Marit Kesa – GDPR Register’s new Sales and Customer Success Manager

February 19, 2024
We are excited to welcome Marit Kesa as the newest member of the GDPR Register team. As our new Sales...
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New record for GDPR fines: over four billion euros in penalties

October 31, 2023
Data protection authorities in Europe are gaining confidence and competence, which is reflected in the statistics of penalties for violators....
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Legal tech startup GDPR Register appoints ex-Veriff leader as new CEO to lead next stage of growth

October 26, 2023
GDPR Register appointment ex-Veriff leader Krete Paal as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective October 1, 2023. She will spearhead the company’s next stage of growth as it prepares for a crucial 2024 funding round and expansion into other European markets. 
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Clubhouse app faces court action in Germany over serious failings under data protection and consumer law

February 5, 2021
Germany’s largest consumer protection organisation calls on Clubhouse operator Alpha Exploration Co. to cease and desist from illegal business practices...
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Brazil’s Health Ministry’s Data Leak Exposed 243 Million Medical Records for More Than 6 Months

January 27, 2021
Personal information of more than 243 million Brazilians was exposed for more than six months thanks to weakly encoded credentials...
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Ubiquiti, producer of routers and access points, has had a data breach

January 13, 2021
Ubiquiti, one of the biggest sellers of networking gear, including routers, webcams and mesh networks, has alerted its customers to...
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SolarWinds hackers breach US nuclear weapons agency

December 18, 2020
Hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Energy Department and...
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Irish Data Protection Commission to announce Twitter fine on December 17th

December 14, 2020
Commissioner Helen Dixon will have an active week with her office’s first potential big tech fine under GDPR and a...
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EU Commission proposes new Data Governance Act

November 30, 2020
Commission proposes measures to boost data sharing and support European data spaces To better exploit the potential of ever-growing data...
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EU consumers will soon be able to defend their rights collectively

November 30, 2020
EU Parliament today endorsed a new law that will allow groups of consumers to join forces and launch collective action...
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Open Rights Group is taking the ICO to court over the regulator’s failure to stop unlawful practices by the AdTech industry

November 11, 2020
In an unprecedented move, the Privacy Campaigners at the Open Rights Group (ORG) have today announced that they are taking...
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Survey result: 45% of businesses faced a data breach in last 12 months

November 11, 2020
The data breach report is based on a survey conducted by Kaspersky and B2B International on September 30, 2020. Researchers...
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Cork hospital fined €65k after patients’ personal data found in public recycling facility

November 5, 2020
Cork hospital fined €65k after patients' personal data found in public recycling facility The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has handed...
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Irish DPC to cover € 2.9M of legal bill of EU-US data transfer case

November 2, 2020
DPC ordered to pick up most of the legal bill of EU-US data transfer case Today, the Irish High Court...
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ICO fines Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep customers’ personal data secure

November 2, 2020
The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates that...
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Wizz Air: €1 for a flight, €35 for your GDPR right

October 26, 2020
Despite the free right to rectification under the GDPR, the airline charged € 35 in phone charges to update a...
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UK Information Commissioner’s Office has published detailed guidance on the Right of Access.

October 21, 2020
The right of access is a fundamental right under data protection law. And it has never been more necessary. In...
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IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard

October 20, 2020
IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard A flagship framework for gathering Internet users’ consent for...
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Instagram is under investigation over handling of children’s data

October 19, 2020
Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform....
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EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US

October 16, 2020
A pan-European alliance for cloud technology will be set up by the end of the year to for purpose of...
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ICO fines British Airways £20m for data breach affecting more than 400,000 customers

October 16, 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details...
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Google Analytics Gets A Major Privacy And Machine Learning-Focused Overhaul

October 16, 2020
Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left....
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Irish Data Protection Commission to receive €2 million extra funding

October 15, 2020
Irish Data Protection Commission has had a ten-fold increase in funding since 2014 Irish Data Protection Commission is getting more...
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Morgan Stanley Fined $60 Million for Data Protection Mishaps

October 14, 2020
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has fined Morgan Stanley $60 million for the investment bank's failure to properly oversee...
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German lawsuit accuses Amazon of breaking EU privacy law

October 12, 2020
The lawsuit takes issue with Amazon’s transatlantic data transfers Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued...
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Amazon’s spying on EU workers just tip of iceberg

October 8, 2020
Amazon has been caught snooping on the private Facebook groups of its EU-based delivery workers The revelations have been accumulating...
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Global Privacy Control initiative is to help consumers exercise their privacy rights

October 8, 2020
Announcing Global Privacy Control: Making it Possible for Consumers to Easily Exercise Their "Do Not Sell" Rights Under CCPA With...
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H&M gets 35.3M euros fine for records of private living conditions of employees

October 2, 2020
Due to several hundred employees of the H&M service centre in Nuremberg were monitored by the centre management, the Hamburg...
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