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Netherlands Imposes Record-Breaking Data Privacy Fine on Uber: 4 Key Steps Companies Can Take to Ensure Compliance

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Dutch data privacy officials recently imposed a staggering penalty on Uber – €290 million ($324 million) – for allegedly breaching the European Union’s comprehensive data privacy and security law. This groundbreaking fine is...more

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Tips for Paralegals and Litigation Support Professionals – August 2024

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8/2/2024 – EU 2024/1689 – Europe Tries to Reign in AI - This week the EU regulation 2024/1689, “laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence” became effective. The European Artificial Intelligence Act will regulate...more

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Massive fine for Uber of EUR 290 million

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On 26 August the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Uber EUR 290 million for a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Following a number of complaints from French Uber drivers, the DPA found that...more

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Buckle Up: Uber Fined €290M for Failing to Safeguard EU Data Transfers

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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or AP) has issued a €290 million fine to Uber for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....more

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Kann man den datenschutzrechtlichen Auskunftsanspruch „wegvergleichen“?

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Der datenschutzrechtliche Auskunftsanspruch gem. Art. 15 Abs. 1 DSGVO beschäftigt Unternehmen auf vielfältige Art und Weise. Zuletzt hatten die europäischen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden diesbezüglich eine koordinierte...more

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DSGVO-Schadensersatz: Keine Haftung für Unternehmen bei Fehlverhalten Beschäftigter?

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Warum ist das relevant? Bei Verstößen gegen das Datenschutzrecht drohen Unternehmen insbesondere zwei Konsequenzen: Maßnahmen der Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden inkl. möglicher DSGVO-Geldbußen nach Art. 83 DSGVO sowie...more

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DSGVO-Auskunftsrecht: Europäische Aufsichtsbehörden starten koordinierte Prüfaktion

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Die europäischen Datenschutzbehörden haben eine koordinierte Prüfaktion mit Fokus auf das Auskunftsrecht gem. Art. 15 DSGVO gestartet. Dabei handelt es sich um eines der in der Praxis bedeutsamsten Datenschutzrechte, gerade...more

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GDPR fines: German court specifies requirements for fine notices in light of ECJ case-law

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Following the European Court of Justice’s (“ECJ”) landmark judgement of 5 December 2023 (case no. C-807/21), the Higher Regional Court of Berlin specified the requirements for GDPR fine notices issued by data protection...more

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Umfassende Unternehmensverantwortung: Neue Rechtsprechung erleichtert DSGVO-Geldbußen

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Warum ist das relevant? Die bisherige deutsche Rechtslage ging davon aus, dass die bloße Feststellung eines Datenschutzverstoßes durch ein Unternehmen für die Verhängung einer Geldbuße nicht ausreichend war. Vielmehr musste...more

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An Introduction To The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act

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On December 8, 2023, European Union (EU) lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU’s AI Act.  The EU AI Act has many similar themes to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and reflects a big step forward in the...more

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CJEU Decision Will Have Impact on Potential Fine Setting Under GDPR

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) clarified in two judgments in the last month of 2023 (Deutsche Wohnen, ECLI:EU:C:2023:950 [DW] and Nacionalinis visuomenės sveikatos centras, ECLI:EU:C:2023:949 [NVSC]) the...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity - Issue 46

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EU AI Act: Political Agreement Reached on Terms of Landmark Legislation - Negotiators for the European Council and the European Parliament have reached political agreement on the provisions of the EU Artificial...more

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EU - EDPB issues final guidelines on the calculation of administrative fines

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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the final version of the Guidelines on the calculation of administrative fines under the GDPR (Guidelines) on 7 June 2023. The Guidelines aim to harmonize the approach to...more

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Meta Fines Expose EU Regulators’ Differences and Highlight Fundamental Issues for Data Controllers

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Meta Ireland (Meta) has recently been issued with two fines by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaches of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) relating to advertisements run on its Facebook and...more

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The New European Approach to Calculating Fines for Data Protection Breaches - Will it be More Predictable and Consistent?

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On May 12, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its long-awaited Guidelines 04/2022 on the calculation of fines under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After many data protection authorities...more

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Belgian DPA Fines IAB: Rough Waters Ahead for Ad Industry

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On February 2, 2022, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) issued a decision finding that the Interactive Advertising Bureau ("IAB”) Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (“TCF”) violates key provisions of the...more

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The Robins Kaplan Privacy Pulse: EU Regulators Fine WhatsApp $266 Million for GDPR Violations

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On September 2, 2021, EU regulators fined Facebook-owned chat service, WhatsApp, £225 million (around $266 million) for failing to fully disclose its user data collection and sharing practices. This is the second largest fine...more

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CNPD vs. Amazon, the largest GDPR fine on record – what do we know so far?

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Amazon’s financial records have revealed that the Luxembourg data protection supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (“CNPD”), is fining the retailer’s European arm (Amazon Europe Core...more

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Spanish DPA shakes the privacy status quo in Spain – highest fines yet on personal data

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (“Spanish DPA”) decided to start 2021 the same way it ended 2020: by imposing the highest fines to date (EUR 5,000,000 and 6,000,000) to two large Spanish financial entities. ...more

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ICO fines Marriott 18.4 million pounds for data breach

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CEP Magazine (January 2021) - After extended investigations and negotiations, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office levied a fine of £18.4 million against Marriott International Inc. for a data breach...more

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German court drastically reduces GDPR fine

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Germany has seen a couple of record GDPR fines since the German Data Protection Authorities (DPA) issued their guidance paper on how to measure GDPR fines in October 2019. One of these DPA sanctions was recently subject to...more

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British Airways Faces Significantly Reduced £20M Fine for GDPR Breach

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At £20 million, the fine imposed on British Airways (BA) for its infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation is the biggest fine of its kind in the history of the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)....more

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Hamburg Data Protection Supervisory Authority Issues Record-Breaking €35 Million Fine against H&M

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As announced by a press release dated 1 October 2020, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has issued a fine of €35,258,707.95 (approx. US$41.2 million) against H&M Hennes &...more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Malta - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed....more

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GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Netherlands - A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

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Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed....more

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