SypherPrivacyTalks - November 2024 - Week 45
by Sypher | Published in News - November 04, 2024
Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.
EU & UK online safety legislation - a comprehensive update
🛡️The EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA), which aim to improve online safety, are both making progress, each with different enforcement and guidance updates.
The EU has designated 23 Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and two Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs), launched a transparency database and issued guidance to support compliance with the DSA, with national regulators now overseeing enforcement. Meanwhile, the UK's OSA is celebrating its first anniversary and Ofcom, the UK's communications services regulator, is moving forward with consultations and draft codes on illegal and child online harm in preparation for full regulatory implementation… read more
Fines of €15,000 for GDPR non-compliance: what authorities found at Untold
e-juridic.manager.ro • 3 min read
💶 The company behind the Untold music festival was fined 15,000 EUR by the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP) for GDPR violations. Untold SRL failed to grant a person access to their personal data and did not address their data deletion request within the required timeframe.
ANSPDCP issued two fines: 10,000 EUR for denying data access and 5,000 EUR for failing to process the deletion request. Corrective measures were also imposed, including responding to requests and implementing GDPR-compliant procedures… read more (article in Romanian).
What rights do data subjects have under the AI Act and are they different from the GDPR?
fieldfisher.com • 1 min read/ 55 min video
💡The AI Act introduces new rights that businesses need to prepare for. In this webinar, a panel of Fieldfisher experts discussed:
- What these rights entail
- How they will interact with GDPR and other recent European legislation
- Key compliance deadlines
… read more/ watch the webinar
Vodafone Romania, €5,000 GDPR fine for emails
💶 The Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP) has fined Vodafone Romania €5,000 for GDPR non-compliance after it sent emails without protecting the confidentiality of recipients by failing to hide email addresses.
The company failed to implement adequate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data. The ANSPDCP also recommended that Vodafone train its staff and regularly monitor compliance… read more
Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
🕵️♂️ European privacy non-profit organisation NOYB has filed a GDPR complaint against Pinterest, accusing the platform of using tracking ads without user consent and failing to fulfil data access requests.
The complaint, filed with the French data protection authority, also claims that Pinterest has failed to disclose which categories of data it shares with third parties… read more
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