Tag Archive: Meta

Dutch DPA loses case that legitimate interests must be legal obligations
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CJEU rules on legitimate interests: 4 key lessons

The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (‘AP‘), the Dutch data protection authority, has been almost alone in claiming that a legitimate interest must be a legal obligation, not just something legal a business…

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Image of 91m euro fine on Meta by Ireland's DPC
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Meta fined €91m for passwords in plain text

It’s turning into a busy autumn for Privacy professionals! Hot on the heels of the Dutch DPA hitting Uber with a €290m GDPR fine for transfers to the USA without…

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November Privacy Roundup

If you’ve ever thought ‘we’ll slightly delay the newsletter so we can cover this new bit of news, then we’ll close it off’, don’t do that… the torrent never stops!…

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August Privacy Roundup

You may have noticed we skipped our July newsletter covering June, apologies, so here’s a summer bumper edition! As always, so much to talk about with the new Privacy triumvirate…

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CJEU Facebook July 2023
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Meta loses again: this time at the CJEU

Much of the 4 July 2023 decision by the European Union’s highest court is worth digging into. Stick with us for a longer read. We’ll start with the key points…

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Meta DPC DPF Snail Race
Meta IE €1.2bn fine and stop order: Key takeaways

This article was first published in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence on 12 April 2023 and are the personal views of the author, Robert Baugh. Subscribers link. Free trial link.  See the…

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DPC fines Meta 1.2 billion
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Meta Ireland's €1.2bn GDPR fine takes them to €2.5bn in total

Facebook (OK, Meta) just lost out big time with a fine of €1.2bn and orders to suspend transfers of personal data on EEA users to the USA within 5 months…

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