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.
Researchers reported on Tuesday that Amazon Web Services System Manager (SSM) misconfigurations led to the potential exposure of more than 5 million documents with personally identifiable information and credit card transactions on more than 3,000 SSM documents.
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 […]
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) […]
TikTok is facing a legal challenge from former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield over how it collects and uses children’s data. The claim is being filed on behalf of millions of children in the UK and EU who have used the hugely popular video-sharing app. If successful, the children affected could each be owed […]
The European Union will start a trial with a digital corona passport in early June to make it easier for holders to travel within the EU. The underlying European system must be ready and operational by the end of June. The “Digital Green Certificate” will serve as proof that someone has been vaccinated, tested negative […]
Multiple reports over the weekend confirmed that an attacker published details — including names, user IDs, phone numbers, and emails — of more than 533 million Facebook users on a forum.
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.
The Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) imposed a total fine of 6.000.000 EUR on CAIXABANK for unlawfully processing clients’ personal data (4.000.000 EUR) and not providing sufficient information regarding the processing of personal data (2.000.000 EUR). The AEPD considered that the document designed to comply with the information did not include enough information regarding the […]