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Bank fined 300,000 euros for automatic rejection credit card application
A Berlin-based bank has been fined 300,000 euros by the Berlin data protection commissioner. The fine was imposed…
Android phone chip provider was secretly collecting user data
Security researchers discovered that a chip present in some Android phones manufactured by Qualcomm is collecting sensitive user…
Your fertility, your data, or your body our data?
Unfair, unsafe – and also often unclear to women using fertility apps, just what is really going on…
Controller based on the choice of purpose and “essential” means
The EDPS – European Data Protection Supervisor states in an opinion that in order to act as a…
Italian DPA halts AI Chatbot due to privacy concerns
The Italian privacy regulator has ordered a popular AI chatbot to cease processing data on domestic citizens after…
US direct access to Europeans’ biometric data for visa-free travel?
The US government demands direct access to databases of European police services containing biometric data of European citizens.…
France says no to “Free” Office365 and Google Workspace in schools
Free service offers such as Office365 and Google Workspace are excluded from public procurement according to the French…
Sanction of 800,000 euros for Discord
The CNIL pronounced against the company Discord INC. a fine of 800,000 euros for failing to comply with…
Google settles deception case in obtaining location data for $ 391 million
Google has settled in the United States for misleadingly obtaining location data from millions of users for an…