Lawsuit in High Court of England and Wales Against Meta

Facebook, owned by Meta, has been ordered to stop collecting personal data for the purpose of marketing and advertising after a lawsuit was launched in the High Court of England and Wales. 📌 Background Tanya O’Carroll, a tech and human rights activist, filed the lawsuit, claiming that this amounts to “surveillance advertising.” According to her […]

ePrivacy Regulation Talks

The ePrivacy Regulation was the subject of a technical discussion between representatives from the European Parliament and the EU Council on November 10. Four years after the proposal’s presentation, in February 2021, the EU members finally came to an agreement. However, since then, the two institutions’ negotiating teams have barely made any progress, as the […]

Zuwyco Misused a Public Telecommunications Service

The UK Data Protection Authority (ICO) imposed a fine of £160,000 on Zuwyco Limited for making more than 90,000 unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers who had been listed on the “no call” register for not less than 28 days, contrary to regulation 21(1)(b) of PECR. Following complaints, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) […]

Royal Mail Data Breach

A data breach at Royal Mail has resulted in consumer information being shared with other users. The Royal Mail suffered a data breach in its “Click & Drop” service, allowing users utilizing the platform unlawful access to other clients’ and companies’ parcel data. Click & Drop was temporarily disabled, but Royal Mail has restored it. […]

AEPD Fines Caixa Bank for Violation of the GDPR

NEW Digital Services Act

The Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU’s primary reform of long-standing e-commerce regulations, has now been published in the EU’s Official Journal. Read about it here! Legal content you can understand with iubenda 👇     👉 You can access the final text of the DSA here. The Digital Services Act was officially published in […]