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BREAKING NEWS: Privacy Shield invalidated, but SCCs might not be enough for data transfers

The European Court of Justice held in the Schrems II case that the Privacy Shield is invalidated, but the possibility to rely on standard contractual clauses for data transfers needs to be assessed on a case by case basis.

Jul 2020

Google convicted for late deindexing following a right to be forgotten request

Google has to pay damages for the late deindexing of pages following a user's request for the exercise of the right to be forgotten.

Jul 2020

EU Commission report on GDPR reveals some gaps and improvements to be achieved

The report of the EU Commission on the GDPR unveils a situation where Member States and data protection authorities still need to have a more consistent approach and exploit all the potentials of the EU privacy regulation.

Jun 2020

Social media faces a privacy related fine for unlawful processing of data through cookies in Spain

The modalities of collection of individuals' consent and processing of personal data through cookies performed by a well-known social media was challenged by the Spanish authority that issued a privacy related fine against the company.

Jun 2020

Taxi company fined for breach of privacy laws in video surveillance of vehicles in Finland

The video surveillance system adopted to monitor vehicles by a taxi company has been considered by the Finnish privacy authority to be in breach of the data protection law.

Jun 2020

The German federal court rules on the obligation to obtain privacy consent to the usage of cookies

After the position taken by the ECJ in the Planet49 case, the EDPB in its guidelines, also the German federal court held that privacy consent is necessary to the usage of cookies.

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Cheating in Esports tournaments and legal arguments for discouraging bad players

Cheating activities in Esports can lead to the breach of tournaments' rules, but also to copyright infringement with strategies aimed at maximizing the issue of sanctions.

#HappyBirthdayGDPR – It CANNOT be the year of the “whatever it takes”

On the birthday of the GDPR, we need to defend privacy rights against the strategy of companies, and authorities that want to challenge or waive them due to the Covid-19 outbreak, assuming to better protect the public interests.

Did you update your cookies privacy consent after the EDPB position?

The new guidelines on privacy consent of the European Data Protection Board challenged a practice on cookies validated by the Garante in Italy and adopted by most of the websites.

The new position on coronavirus checks of the Garante privacy in Italy

The Garante took a more open view on compliance of coronavirus checks with privacy laws in Italy, which is more flexible but still provides stringent obligations.