Tag: GDPR
Interpretation 108: Data protection in the games industry
Sales of computer games are continuously increasing in Germany. 2023 was filled with PC games and console games turnover of more than 3.7 billion euros. The market for smartphones and…
European privacy advocates file complaint against OpenAI
As of: April 29, 2024 10:38 a.m The AI program ChatGPT publishes data about private individuals whose origin is unclear. Data protection experts accuse the provider OpenAI of this. In…
The CNIL sanctions Yahoo! a fine of 10 million euros
Very salty cookies. The American internet services company Yahoo! was sanctioned with a fine of 10 million euros by the CNIL, the French privacy watchdog, for several breaches relating to…
Giving your personal telephone number to your employees… A good idea?
A star is Björn. Björn Gulden, the CEO of Adidas, made headlines last week when he announced that he had given his personal telephone number to all of his 60,000…
Facebook app shows accumulated clicks | heise online
Users of the Facebook app for Android and iOS can now view their own “link history”. “The link history is a list of websites that you have visited via the…
Why are paid subscriptions to avoid advertising tracking increasing on the Internet?
Paid subscriptions or “paywalls” to avoid being targeted by advertising are multiplying on the media and social networks. For a long time, publishers of free content on the Internet made…
The EU steps up to the plate on targeted ads from Meta and Instagram
Brussels is trying to act against the web behemoths. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced on Wednesday that it is asking Ireland’s data regulator about the whereabouts of the…
Five years GDPR: Why data protection violations have hardly been punished
Meta has just been fined billions because data flows from Europeans to the USA. Five years after the start of the General Data Protection Regulation, fines are rare. A balance…
European Union fines Meta 390 million euros for GDPR violation
The Meta group, Facebook’s parent company, was fined Wednesday, January 4, two fines totaling 390 million euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), announced the Irish Data Protection…
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