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UK "cavalier attitude to data protection”, having left 500,000 patient records in an unsecured location [41] 2020-01-15 TIM S.p.A. €27,800,000 Italy Unlawful processing for marketing purposes [42] 2020-03-10: Google LLC: SEK 75 M (€7 M) Sweden : Right-to-be-forgotten violations [43] 2020-07-06 BKR €840,000 The Netherlands
Since Elizabeth Denham was appointed Britain's Information Commissioner in 2016, the ICO has undertaken high-profile investigations into Equifax, Yahoo, Talk Talk, Uber, and Facebook; issuing the maximum fine under the Data Protection Act 1998 of £500,000 to Facebook, [9] for breaches of data protection law. Denham has also overseen the ...
The Information Commissioner's Office has responsibility for the enforcement of unsolicited e-mails and considers complaints about breaches. A breach of an enforcement notice is a criminal offence subject to a fine of up to £500,000 depending on the circumstances. [1]
TikTok has been fined £12.7M ($15.9M) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for several breaches of children’s data protection law. John Edwards, the UK’s Information ...
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On 19 June 2019, a cross-party group of 38 of the 73 UK Members of the European Parliament wrote to the Venice Commission, a body of the Council of Europe charged with assisting Council members regarding constitutional law, to request an investigation into "the breach of spending rules and data-protection laws" and "the exclusion of non-UK EU ...
The financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic was cited as one reason for the reduced fine. [5] In 2021 the law firm Pogust and Goodhead announced that they were representing a group of BA customers who had been affected by the breach in "the largest group-action personal-data claim in UK history". [6] The class was settled out of court. [7]
The Online Safety Act, which became law last year, sets tougher standards for platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, with an emphasis on child protection and the removal of illegal content.