(Data Protection News & Services)
€100,000 saved in France On March 27, 2020, the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) struck out a €100,000 fines imposed by the French Supervisory Authority (the CNIL) on Google in 2016. Besides the financial sanction, the CNIL had also
Since the beginning of 2020, the Supervisory Authorities across the European Union have issued several fines on companies breaching the provisions of the GDPR or national marketing laws. The main decisions are as follows: – Italy: two fines of respectively €11,5
The Italian Supervisory Authority served two fines of EUR 8.5 and 3 million on Eni Gas and Luce (Egl), an Italian electricity and gas supplier. The first fine sanctions illicit processing of personal data in the context of promotional activities
Following the judgement in Schrems of October 6, 2015, invalidating the Safe Harbor decision, the CJEU is now requested by the same party to rule on the validity of the decision 2010/87 instating the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and indirectly,
On november 21 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) issued a €500,000 fine against FUTURA INTERNATIONALE, for various breaches of the GDPR and, in particular, for breaching the individuals’ right to opt-out of marketing calls. The CNIL justified