Privacy Transformation - Issue 251

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments.

PRIVACY

Under new management: Inside the Irish data regulator’s critical reboot

The Data Protection Commission has endured no shortage of opprobrium under the leadership of Helen Dixon. Its new bosses might be about to find out just how tough it is at the apex of privacy regulation.

🔗 RELATED: Irish data watchdog sent ‘salty’ letters to EU regulators, Norway authority claims

IAB Europe’s advertising bidding model uses personal data, EU court rules

IAB Europe’s online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU’s highest court in Luxembourg has clarified.

✍🏻 ICO launches “consent or pay” call for views and updates on cookie compliance work

As part of our cookie compliance work, I committed to providing the online advertising industry with clarity on ways in which it can use advertising cookies in compliance with data protection law.

ENFORCEMENT

Italian DPA: Enel Energia fined EUR79 million for failing to protect databases from unauthorised access

The company was fined for serious shortcomings in the processing of the personal data of numerous electricity and gas supply customers, as carried out for telemarketing purposes.

UK DPA: ICO finds the Home Office’s pilot of GPS electronic monitoring of migrants breached UK data protection law

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued an enforcement notice and a warning to the Home Office for failing to sufficiently assess the privacy risks posed by the electronic monitoring of people arriving in the UK via unauthorised means.

CONTRIBUTE
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