🇪🇸 Watium ignored the DPA (several times), was fined €160,000, but got a 40% discount for acknowledging responsibility and agreeing to pay voluntary. 💡 Make it a habit to respond promptly both to DPAs and data subjects! (And please reach out if you have answers to my questions.)
You have the right of access processed before the GDPR took effect if you requested it after that date, and to know when and why it was accessed – but not by whom, unless crucial for your rights and while respecting others' rights and freedoms.
EDPB shares the output of their latest meeting: Opinion on facial recognition use in airports, ChatGPT Task Force report, and announces Generative AI Guidelines to come! Press release and files here. PS: 📧 Remember you can subscribe to all new CJEU/EDPB posts. Go to Account > Manage emails.
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🇸🇪 DPA IMY concludes in a new legal opinion that they can indeed investigate highly privacy-invasive sites like Mrkoll and Lexbase! A key step forward! 🥳 (Let's just hope it'll become a privacy win!)
Controversial AG Opinion concluding that sports are outside GDPR's scope, with odd logic on Art. 9, stays unclear as the CJEU finds the referring body lacks the needed independence to be a 'court or tribunal', making their preliminary ruling request inadmissible.
The 🇳🇱 DPA issued new guidelines for the private sector (public sector one coming) on web scraping, stating it's "almost always illegal", and reiterates their highly controversial claim that ❌ You can't rely on legitimate interest for purely commercial reasons... 🤨
A strange occurance in my RSS feed today as this order from November 2023 suddenly appeared, giving the EDPB the right to intervene in the infamous SRB v EDPS case. So, not sure this is news. 🤷🏻♀️