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Belgian regulator delineates the boundaries of “special category of data” and “law”

June 28, 2023, , , , ,
The Belgian supervisory authority (APD) recently decided that the information about teachers’ participation in a strike is not a special category of data, because it does not amount to data...
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Legitimate interest assessment as a precondition for the lawfulness of data processing

May 29, 2023, , , ,
On 11 January 2023, the Italian data protection authority (“Garante“) issued a decision against Commify Italia Srl for several violations of the GDPR. The decision demonstrates that the lawfulness of...
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Norwegian Datatilsynet fines a fitness company for GDPR violations

May 17, 2023, , , , ,
On 6 February 2023 the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (“Datatilsynet“) issued an administrative fine in the amount of approx. EUR 860,000 against the Norwegian fitness company SATS ASA (“SATS“), for...
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Sending bulk emails by using CC or TO option is not allowed

May 8, 2023, , , , ,
Two recent decisions of the Italian data protection authority (Garante), one from January 2023 and the other from February 2023, lay down basic principles that the data controllers should follow...
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CNIL consistently censures continual collection of geolocation data

April 27, 2023, , , ,
On 16 March 2023, the French supervisory authority (“CNIL“) imposed an administrative fine in the total amount of EUR 125,000 against Cityscoot, a company that provides electric scooter rental service....
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Don’t take lightly the “necessity” requirement for collection of geolocation data, CNIL says

August 26, 2022, , , , ,
On 7 July 2022, the French supervisory authority (CNIL) imposed a EUR 175,000 fine on Ubeeqo International (Ubeeqo), a car rental service provider. Ubeeqo was found to be collecting customers’...
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Cloud provider a joint controller? Slovenian regulator joins CNIL in saying Yes

August 15, 2022 and , , , , ,
On 1 June 2022, the Slovenian supervisory authority (Information Commissioner) rendered a decision (no. 0612-23/2019/19) ordering a cloud provider (CP) to enter into joint controllership arrangements with its clients. The...
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Key takeaways from the ongoing UK data protection reform

July 21, 2022, , , , , ,
On 17 June, the UK government introduced in the House of Commons the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, a 192-page document containing numerous amendments to the country’s data protection...
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Handle departing employee’s e-mails with care, Belgian DPA reiterates

May 18, 2022, , , , , , ,
On 1 April 2022, the Belgian DPA rendered a decision against an employer for restoring in an indiscriminate manner personal data on a former employee’s work laptop. The facts The...
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Spain: Hotel fined for using photos of the IDs of their guests

March 21, 2022, , , , ,
In a recent decision, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – “AEPD“) fined Marins Playa, S.A. (“Marins Playa“), a provider of hotel services, with 30,000...
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