In the USA 10 major data brokers have data on individuals’ demographic characteristics (from race to gender to income level) and political preferences and beliefs (including support for the NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National LGBTQ Task Force), and on current US government and military personnel. Several of these firms also market: Americans’ geo-locations. […]
Today the Commission issued modernised standard contractual clauses under the GDPR for data transfers from controllers or processors in the EU/EEA (or otherwise subject to the GDPR) to controllers or processors established outside the EU/EEA (and not subject to the GDPR). These modernised SCCs will replace the three sets of SCCs that were adopted under […]
The European privacy regulator EDPS is launching two investigations into the use of Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services by EU authorities. The reason is the invalidity of the Privacy Shield treaty between the EU and the United States. The European regulator states that when using the tools and services of major service providers, personal data […]
Cyberinsurance giant AXA said that it would no longer be writing policies to cover ransomware payments. Now AXA in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Phillippines have reportedly been hit… by a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang posted on its website over the weekend that it had stolen 3 terabytes worth of data, including: customers’ […]
You can not enforce consent by stating the WhatsApp services will otherwise be limited. Consent should be freely given. There is no contractual need for the personal data exchange with Facebook.
In Hamburg they go for it! The authority there relies on art 66 GDPR, which in case of urgency ensures that an authority may take action itself without European coordination. The reason is of course the changes in Whatsapp’s privacy policy that would result in data being passed on to Facebook and used there for […]
WhatsApp with two billion users around the world. was set to enforce its new data-sharing policy with Facebook on May 15 . Now WhatsApp people will remind and eventually become persistent so that at some point users will “encounter limited functionality on WhatsApp until you accept the updates”, according to WhatsApp. “You won’t be able […]
Worldwide Cloud Marketshares in Q3 2020 are 32% by Amazon, 19% Azure and 7% Google Cloud (source: Canalys). Still there is no sound of a real replacement of the Privacy Shield, or a privacy regulation for the transatlantic data exchange, which is is a clear failure of the politicians and can only be remedied by […]
Doctors’ organisations and a human rights group recently challenged the storage of vaccine appointment data on a platform hosted in France and Germany by Amazon Web Services. They sought an urgent order to suspend the transfer of data from Doctolib (a French company contracted by the French government to provide a platform for vaccine appointments) […]
A €14.5 million (U.S. $17.2 million) fine against Deutsche Wohnen issued more than two years ago has been dropped after a German court found under German law the property company could not be held responsible for violating the European Union’s strict privacy laws unless blame could be attached to a specific individual or executive.