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Ius Laboris

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Italian Data Protection Authority Alleges Breaches of GDPR by ChatGPT Platform

On January 29, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) notified OpenAI of breaches of data protection laws involving its ChatGPT platform....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

Dechert LLP

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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Recent GDPR Fines Against Amazon and WhatsApp Set New Records

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The passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made it clear that the European Union (EU) is extremely serious about consumer privacy and that protecting EU citizens’ personal information is a top priority. The...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Datenschutz vor Gericht - rechtssichere Reaktion auf Datenpannen, Cyber Security-Vorfälle und sonstige mögliche...

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Immer häufiger müssen Gerichte über Verfahren wegen tatsächlichen oder behaupteten Bußgeldverstößen entscheiden. Hierbei geht es oft um sehr hohe Beträge und erhebliche persönliche Haftung für die beteiligten...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Colorado’s new privacy law: How it stacks up against other US privacy laws

There are many similarities between the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data privacy Act (VCDPA), and Europe’s GDPR,...more

Hogan Lovells

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

French Regulator Says "Oui" to GDPR Fines for Under-Protected and Over-Retained Data

NIL, the French data privacy regulator, issued a 400,000 euro ($448,358) fine against a company for GDPR violations stemming from sensitive information collected on its website. Investigating a complaint, CNIL discovered that...more

White & Case LLP

Chapter 16: Remedies and sanctions – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Why does this topic matter to organisations? Whereas the remedies and sanctions available to DPAs under the Directive were comparatively low (generally subject to a maximum of less than €1 million per infringement, with...more

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