Vodafone Italy has been fined more than €12 million for illegally processing users’ personal data for commercial purposes. As EDPB (European Data Protection Board) specifies in their report on this case, hundreds of complaints have been sent to the Italian Garante following the marketing calls made by Vodafone to its users. The Italian authority demonstrated […]
EDPB (European Data Protection Board) brings new light upon the recent decision of the CJEU (The Court of Justice of the European Union), named C-311/18 Schrems II (after the Austrian activist Max Schrems), which clarifies the transfer of personal data to third countries and continues to validate the standard contractual clauses. The CJEU emphasizes once […]
A series of lawsuits have been filed against Salesforce and Oracle, by a non-profit organization named The Privacy Collective and Rebecca Rumbul, privacy campaigner and data protection specialist which claims that the two giant companies illegally processed personal data collected in cookies. The violation is quite serious, the companies are accused of collecting and storing […]
Marriot International Inc was recently fined with £18.4 million by ICO (The Information Commissioner’s Office) for violating the GDPR (The General Data Protection) law. Another giant company is failing to comply with the data protection law. Approximately 339 million guests worldwide were affected by a cyber attack which took place in 2014 on Starwood Hotels, […]
