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Lithuania VDAI reports more complaints and higher fines in 2024
The largest fine of the year was issued to Vinted for violating provisions of the EU GDPR.
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Administrative fines by Irish DPC down more than 50% in 2024
The DPC processed fewer new cases, but received an 11% increase in GDPR breach notifications.
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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.
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Cegedim Santé fined €800,000 for processing health data unlawfully
The data was found to be pseudonymous – not anonymous – making it possible to re-identify the people concerned.
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X could face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
The Irish Data Protection Commission has said that it will “examine” complaints received.
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Dutch DPA imposes €30.5m fine on Clearview AI over illegal data collection
The Dutch regulator found Clearview illegally built a database of over 30 billion faces without consent.
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NOYB urges regulators to stop Meta’s use of personal data for AI
Action is needed to stop Meta’s unilateral actions before the processing of users’ data is possible later this month.