Category: News

Facebook Ireland has violated the law when processing personal data of Dutch Facebook users in the period from April 1, 2010 to January 1, 2020. The court of Amsterdam ruled on March 15, 2023. Personal data of users were processed...

The Federal Trade Commission recently took enforcement action against GoodRx and BetterHelp, two digital healthcare platforms, for allegedly sharing user health data with third parties for advertising. Both cases highlighted the use of third-party tracking pixels, which enable platforms to...

The Danish Data Protection Authority has made two principled decisions regarding the use of so-called cookie walls on websites and in this connection also publishes a set of general guidelines for the use of such consent solutions. Since the Norwegian...

Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decisions of 5 December 2022, the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA) has adopted its decisions regarding Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, ‘Meta IE’). These decisions are the result of complaint-based inquiries into...

The Market Court decided today to refer preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the appeal that IAB Europe had filed against decision 21/2022 of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (BE DPA). This BE DPA...

By a decision on June 27, 2022, the Council of State confirmed the sanction of 35 million euros pronounced by the CNIL against Amazon in 2020. The company placed cookies on users’ computers without consent advance or satisfactory information. In...

The Department of Justice announced today that it has obtained a settlement agreement resolving allegations that Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., has engaged in discriminatory advertising in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The proposed agreement...

This proposal aims first and foremost to contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market for political advertising by laying down harmonised rules for a high level of transparency of political advertising and related services. These rules will apply to providers of political...