Tag: GDPR

Instagram Fined Over 400 Million Euros by Ireland for Mishandling Children’s Data

September 6, 2022
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Meta-owned Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($403 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission after it was found that the platform violated European privacy law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission kicked off an investigation into Instagram because the platform made accounts of children between the ages…

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Open Rights Group Says UK Data Reform Bill Would ‘Endanger Consumers’

June 17, 2022
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The Open Rights Group, a digital campaign group with 20,000 members, has criticised the British government’s new Data Reform Bill, saying it will “endanger consumers” and make it easier for businesses to “spy” on people through their computers. The Data Reform Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech, would replace pop-up cookie alerts on websites with…

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Irish Data Watchdog to Probe TikTok Over Handling of User Data

September 18, 2021
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TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing platform, faces two inquiries from a data regulator in the European Union (EU) over its processing of children’s information and transferring of user data to China. The IrishData Protection Commission (DPC) said it will first look at the processing of personal data in the context of platform settings for users…

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