Luxembourg DPA fines Amazon Europe €746m
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13 March 2026: Amazon with big win – a Luxembourg appeals court has overturned the €746 million fine and referred the case back to the DPA.
🇮🇪 DPC fines TikTok €530m for China transfers
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10 July: DPC launches new investigation into China transfers. Earlier: transparency breach by failing to disclose the third countries involved and didn't explain the nature of the transfers in its privacy policy --> get compliant in six months or stop the transfers (but order paused until Oct).
🇮🇪 DPC fines LinkedIn €310m for illegal behavioural analysis and targeted advertising ('BA & TA')
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Key takaways: Lack of lawful basis = loss of control = 'significant damage', lawful bases are notoriously tricky to get right, and most have lots to gain in improving information and transparency. Full decision = a key lesson on legitimate interest and LIAs.
noyb win: 🇳🇱 Dutch DPA fines Netflix €4.75m for lack of information
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noyb gets their first big win in their streaming services complaint project, filed in January 2019 against Amazon Prime, Apple Music, DAZN, Flimmit, Netflix, SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube. Unsurprisingly, Netflix has already objected.
France DPA fines Amazon €32m for invasive employee monitoring
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[22 March update: Amazon has appealed] The 🇫🇷 CNIL fined Amazon for excessively intrusive monitoring, using several illegal indicators and unsecure video surveillance software, without sufficiently informing employees and visitors.
Sweden MedHelp 1177 case
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This case is not only a goldmine for DPOs in the Swedish healthcare sector (although particularly so), but DPOs in general, for assessing roles, legal bases and processor liability.
Sweden court upholds ~$1m fine: major health data leak and forwarding calls to 🇹🇭
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🇸🇪 MedHelp must pay SEK 11,3 million (~$1m) for leaking 2,7 million health-related conversations (of 170 000 hours) online for several years and no legal basis for forwarding call to Thailand.
Belgium DPA's audit exceeds initial complaint
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How not to respond to concerns about formatting issues in your official letters...