The first fine under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against ‘Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd’, a London’s pharmacy for several GDPR infringements.
The ICO and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have signed an updated Memorandum of Understanding.
The ICO has created an infographic which highlights different aspects of children’s online activities, showing information from the amount of time spent at the computer, to the level of online social presence for each age group.
On the occasion of Data Protection Day the European Commission took a close look at GDPR compliance, enforcement and awareness and published the infographic below.
The privacy group noyb reports structural violations of most streaming services. In more than 10 test cases noyb was able to identify violations of Article 15 GDPR in many shapes and forms by companies like Amazon, Apple, DAZN, Spotify or Netflix. noyb has filed a wave of 10 strategic complaints against 8 companies.
The European Commission has the power to determine, on the basis of article 45 of GDPR whether a country outside the EU offers an adequate level of data protection. Such security is given either by the country’s domestic legislation or the international commitments it has entered into.
“EU representative if subject to the GDPR on the basis of Article 3(2) Like many other non-EU-based controllers and processors, UK entities subject to the GDPR as a result of their remote commercial operations or online profiling activities in the EU will need to appoint a local representative. Again, this is not a simple exercise, …
In Portugal, the Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo has been fined 400,000 euros for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation.