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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) wrapped up 2020 with a EUR 20,000 fine against NESTOR, a French food preparation and delivery company catering to office employees (see full decision here in French).
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Various breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
2 and the ePrivacy Directive regarding the processing of prospects and clients’ personal data were highlighted by the CNIL, most notably:
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4 whether:
Upon indirect collection through external sources;
The failure to properly address data subjects’ access requests (DSAR).
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While the fine is rather limited in view of the maximum potential amount of EUR 20 million or four percent of the turnover (whichever the greater), this decision remains an opportunity to look at web scraping and direct marketing practices, which are rapidly developing.
Cookie walls, user consent and the future of monetisation in the media
The future of monetisation for publishing has been turned upside down for several years. The context is likely to be further disturbed following the programmed extinction of third-party cookies, the challenges to first-party data real value, and recommendations on the consent of cookies collection issued by Data Protection Authorities.
| March 8, 2021
The future of monetisation for publishing has been turned upside down for several years. The advertising-based revenue model is undermined for several reasons, such as ad budgets moving to GAFAM, disintermediation and loss of margin, adblocking and the programmed extinction of third-party cookies, or the challenges to first-party data real value.
How Europe’s Intelligence Services Aim to Avoid the EU’s Highest Court and What It Means for the United States
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As a result of last summer’s Schrems IIjudgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the United States nowfinds itself forced to consider changes to its foreign surveillance law and practices in order to reestablish a stable basis for transatlantic transfers of personal data. Taking such steps may be the only way to persuade the EU that U.S. surveillance laws offer “essentially equivalent” protections for data to those prevailing in Europe, as EU data protection law requires.
Why Data Privacy Should Be on President Biden s darkreading.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from darkreading.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.