A lot has happened over the last couple of few weeks. Privacy watchdogs across Europe have been busy with fines, UK watchdog resumes investigation of adtech privacy practices, Seers participates in the ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox and data breaches continue. Seers is hosting a privacy webinar to help companies with their data breach management strategies.
Here are the top stories from the privacy world this week.
Top Stories and Updates
Seers participation in ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox
The Regulatory Sandbox is a service developed by the ICO, to support organisations who are creating products and services which utilise personal data in innovative and safe ways.
Seers is engaged with ICO Sandbox team to further enhance it’s world leading Consent Management Platform (CMP) and provide child privacy consent management. The platform enables children or parental/ guardian consent and allows age verification before a child can gain access to website content to enable companies to comply with the GDPR and new age appropriate code of practice to protect children’s privacy online.
UK watchdog resumes investigation of AdTech privacy practices
The UK’s data watchdog has resumed an investigation of AdTech privacy practices as it has seen an increase in the number of complaints across Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
These complaints cover concerns related to real-time bidding (RTB) focus on consent, that leads to people’s personal data being broadcast to many companies as well as the high velocity trading of internet users’ personal data amongst other areas.
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Grindr fined €10 Million by Norwegian data protection agency
The Norwegian data protection agency has issued a fine of €10 Million to the US based company: Grindr in relation to consent violations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Since GDPR allows for fines to scale up to 4% of global annual turnover or upto €20M (whichever is higher), thus Grindr could potentially be at risk of a much higher fine due to the nature of the violation.
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CNIL issues fine under the GDPR
The CNIL recently sanctioned 150,000 euros and 75,000 euros a data controller and his subcontractor for not having taken satisfactory measures to deal with credential stuffing attacks on the website of the data controller.
Data breach at a dating site leaks details of more than 2.28 million users
A data breach at a dating site: MeetMindful exposed personal data of more than 2.28 million users. This data covered: real names, Facebook account token, email addresses and geo-location information.
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Why founders need other founders in the privacy world?
Founders within the privacy world are often confronted with difficult challenges to meet the ever-changing needs of the privacy sector. They can collaborate to share ideas and find solutions. Find out how you can setup your own support group.
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Public Notice: Important information on Post-Brexit data protection
While data flows continue even after the transition period has ended, there are serious privacy considerations that can still impact your business and its compliance with the GDPR, ePrivacy and the Data Protection Act 2018. Ensure compliance by hiring an EU/ UK Representative to allow your business operations to run smoothly. On top of being a legal requirement, it can help you in navigating your data strategy under the current guidance and directives.
Data transfers and online advertising technologies post-Schrems II
The privacy ecosystem has changed following the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (‘CJEU’) decision on the Schrems II Case. The legitimacy of international data transfer flows has changed, directly impacting the regulation of the different technologies and vendors in the online advertising field. Hire a Privacy Expert to handle the emerging data protection needs and the updated data flows.
