Tag Archives: Data protection

Irish data protection authorities fined Meta 17 million euros

Posted on 2022-03-16 by guenni

[German]The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) has just fined Meta (formerly Facebook) €17 million. This fine stems from several data protection breaches by Facebook in the past.

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Europol must delete data collected illegal from individuals

Posted on 2022-01-11 by guenni

[German]The EU police agency Europol has amassed a huge collection of personal data of individuals collected somewhere in the course of investigations, crime reports or hacked messenger services, as well as asylum seekers. This data collection has been done unlawfully, … Continue reading →

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Data protection officer stopps use of Microsoft Teams in schools of German state Hesse

Posted on 2021-04-02 by guenni

[German]The use of Microsoft Teams in schools of German state Hesse (Hessen) is being phased out for data protection reasons. This has just been announced by the Hessian data protection commissioner. Data protection-compliant substitute solutions are available for use for … Continue reading →

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European Court cancels EU-US “Privacy Shield”

Posted on 2020-07-16 by guenni

[German]It is a bang – the data protection agreement "Privacy Shield" concluded between the USA and the EU has just been overturned by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). This now affects all cloud services hosted in the USA.

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