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Privacy Activists Decry Loosening Record-Keeping RequirementsPrivacy rights groups urged the European Commission to retreat from proposals to revise the GDPR. Europe pledged to lessen record-keeping obligations for companies with up to 500 employees so long as the data processing isn't "likely to result in a high risk."
Irish DPC Imposes a Fine for GDPR ViolationsTikTok must pay 530 million euros to the Irish data regulator for non-compliance with European privacy law. The nearly $600 million fine stems from TikTok's storage of European user data on servers in China and failure to disclose data transfers to China from July 2020 through November 2022.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
Transfer of German Man's IP Address Wins Him 400 EurosEuropean privacy regulation - bane of American technology companies and a favorite cudgel of activists - came to haunt no less an organization than the European Commission, which must pay 400 euros to aggrieved German national Thomas Bindl, peeved that Facebook obtained his IP address.
The Irish DPC Imposed the Fine for GDPR ViolationsThe Irish Data Protection Commission imposed a 310 million euro fine on LinkedIn for violating a European privacy law stemming from the company's use of customer data. It ordered the social media platform to bring its data processing under compliance.
Inquiry Launched to Determine the Company's Compliance With GDPRThe Irish data regulator launched an investigation to determine Google's compliance with a European privacy law when it was developing its PaLM 2 artificial intelligence model. Google launched the multilingual generative AI model last year.
5th Nation to Investigate Software Firm Imposes Largest GDPR Penalty, Bans UseThe Dutch data regulator is the latest agency to fine artificial intelligence company Clearview AI over its facial data harvesting and other privacy violations of GDPR rules, joining regulatory agencies in France, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
Home Office Electronic Migrant Tracking System Violates UK GDPR, Says ICOA defunct U.K. Home Office pilot project that tracked the whereabouts of 600 migrants violated British privacy law, the British data regulator said early Friday in London, giving the agency a deadline of nearly a month to bring its data processing requirements under compliance.
4.7 Billion Euros in Total Known Fines Since Data Protection Law Took EffectIreland - home to the European headquarters of a throng of multinational tech companies - is responsible for the greatest amount of aggregate data protection fines - 2.9 billion euros - since the European Union General Data Protection Regulation went into effect.
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Heads to the House of LordsBritish Conservative lawmakers are pushing ahead with legislation modifying the U.K. codification of European privacy law despite objections from privacy advocates and concerns about the legislation's impact on European trade. Government backers say the bill will bolster the domestic AI industry.