Pension scheme support company Capita's failure to process personal data securely or effectively respond to a cyberattack earned it a fine of 14 million pounds ($18.7 million) from the U.K. ICO, the watchdog announced Wednesday. The fine was part of an agreed settlement in which Capita admitted liability and declined to appeal.
European DPAs will focus their next coordinated enforcement action on compliance with the GDPR's transparency and information requirements, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced Tuesday. The push will launch in 2026.
European privacy professionals remain concerned President Donald Trump could nullify the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) by reversing former President Joe Biden’s executive order establishing the DPF, said Austrian activist and privacy attorney Max Schrems on Tuesday.
There’s no substitute for openness, clear communication and specificity where privacy regulation is concerned, Orrick lawyer Christian Schroder wrote, as was demonstrated by rulings in Germany in June involving GDPR regulations. In addition, the rulings showed that an organization gathering data from public sources about a job candidate could put it out of compliance, though that might not force the hiring of a wronged candidate, Schroder said in a blog post this week.
Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google must provide information on their age certification systems and how they prevent items such as vapes from being sold to kids, the European Commission said Friday as it launched investigations under the Digital Services Act.
France's law clearly defines what documents landlords can request from people seeking rental property, French privacy watchdog CNIL said Friday.
As part of an effort to facilitate GDPR compliance and bolster consistency, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission issued their first joint guidelines Thursday, emphasizing areas of agreement between GDPR and the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
LinkedIn users must actively opt out of an AI setting or risk having the platform use their data to train large language models, said a Dutch privacy regulator and a lawyer.
A U.S.-based company that scraps the web for images of people and sells them to clients tells Privacy Daily it will appeal a Wednesday decision from a U.K. panel that ruled its activities violate its citizens' privacy.
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner published updated cookie guidelines Tuesday in response to questions it received about the text and various issues.