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In July 2020 the Court of Justice the European Union s
(CJEU)
Schrems II decision declared the EU-US
Privacy Shield Protections inadequate for the protection of
European data. On November 10, 2020, the European Data Protection
Board (EDPB) released
Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools
to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal
data. The recommendations provide a framework for data
exporters to analyze the protections afforded to European Union
residents person data and ensure that throughout the data
lifecycle data receive the protection demanded by EU privacy law as
embodied in the GDPR and other regulations.
The recommendations provide six steps to analyze the processing
Apple’s nutrition labels for apps will go live today offering users more insight into data collected
The nutrition labels will be self-reported by developers who will answer a set of questions while submitting or updating apps to provide the information. Updated: December 15, 2020 8:52:28 am
Apple first announced Privacy Nutrition Labels at WWDC 2020. (Image credit: Apple)
Apple will Tuesday begin showing a nutrition label-like summary of the privacy practices of apps on their product pages. These will be self-reported by developers as announced at the World Wide Developers Conference in June and will include Apple’s own native apps too.
Users will start seeing this information now on all apps across Apple’s operating systems iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS as Cupertino has made it a mandatory part of the app submission process for all developers.
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has announced a €450,000 fine on Twitter for data breaches under GDPR.
It’s the first fine on a multinational tech firm from the Irish regulator since GDPR was introduced.
The amount of the fine was disputed among European regulators, with other countries unhappy with the scale of the sanction. Germany wanted to impose a fine of between €7m and €22m on Twitter, which recorded annual revenue of $3.46bn (€2.7bn) in 2019. Under GDPR rules, European data regulators can fine companies up to 4pc of their annual turnover.
However, the Irish office says the €450,000 is an “effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure”.