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Nordic Privacy Arena, NPA, is the biggest gathering of privacy and security professionals in the Nordics. More than 700 professionals meet under two days and share insights and experiences. This year, although being digital, the [...]
Swedish DPA: Get in control of personal data and flows
The Swedish DPA Datainspektionen has now presented their first embryo of guidelines following the Shrems II case from July 16th. They conclude, as many others, that transfer of personal data from the EU to the [...]
CJEU: No more benefit of the doubt
As most have noticed, the decision communicated by the European Court of Justice, CJEU, the 16th of July in the Schrems II case has made the usage of American cloud services, if not impossible, [...]
Privacy shield has fallen. This changes everything.
Privacy shield has fallen. This changes everything.The European Court of Justice, ECJ, has decided in the Schrems II-case (C-311/18). They declare the Privacy Shield, an arrangement created by the by the U.S. Department of Commerce [...]
DPO having too many hats. Price: €50 000
The Belgian Data Protection Authority has decided on the role of the Data Protection Officer, and potential conflict of interest. Proximus SA has been fined €50,000 for appointing its Head of Compliance, Audit and Risk [...]
Slow reporting. Price: €20 000
The Swedish DPA Datainspektionen issues a fine of €20 000 towards the Swedish National Government Service Centre for breaches towards the GDPR. The Swedish National Government Service Centre got aware of a security hole in the [...]
Big data contact tracing – Aigine’s team #2 in Hack the crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone’s lives, and unfortunately its impact seems to extend to our lives and economies long after the virus itself has been put under control. In order to save lives, unburden [...]
Video: We had a good time at a privacy webinar!
Recording from the very popular webinar we held in collaboration with Arrow, IBM and DLA Piper. And yes, we did have a very good time. https://youtu.be/xu6iUprsKjU Privacy-related EU fines, background https://youtu.be/xu6iUprsKjU?t=172 Damages and activism, new [...]
Can’t forget. Price: €6 980 000
Swedish DPA Datainspektion issues a fine of €6 980 000 towards Google for breach of the GDPR. Following a case from 2017, where Datainspektionen decided that certain personal data should be removed, they have now found that [...]
Aigine becomes a Norrsken House Impact Member
The right to a personal life is one of the fundamental human right found described in article 12 of the Declaration of human rights. It is also part of the United Nations sustainability goals and [...]
Tom Törngård strengthens Aigine
Tom started his career as an officer in the Swedish Armed Forces and has thereafter used his leadership skills in a wide variety of roles. He has solid experience in complex enterprise sales from his [...]
Procrastination. Price: €388 350
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, issues a fine of €388 350 to the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The fine is the highest in Norway and is targeting a public authority, without any data breach occurring. [...]
Swedish DPA: A storm is coming
Many have reacted with surprise on the near absence of enforcements coming from Scandinavian DPAs since GDPR entered into effect May 2018. And for sure, compared to a relatively much higher activity level from southern [...]
Webinar with DLA Piper 5th of March: Turning GDPR from cost and threats to a competitive advantage.
Register here:https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4623219200604939021 By popular request we are happy to once again invite to a webinar together with leading data protection lawyers from DLA Piper. The webinar will be held the 5th of March between 10am [...]
Wrong number. Price: €27 800 000
The Italian telecom operator TIM has been fined €27 800 000 by the Italian DPA for breaches of the GDPR. Numerous and serious violations of the GDPR have emerged from the complex preliminary investigation, that was carried [...]
Forrester: Enhanced customer trust no1 driver for privacy
Forrester Consulting has evaluated the state of enterprises’ data privacy compliance in a shifting regulatory landscape. Through a survey of 218 global enterprise decision makers with responsibility over privacy or data protection, they sought to [...]
Happy Data Protection Day!
Today it’s the Data Protection Day, or Data Privacy Day in the US, an event that serves to put focus on data privacy practice in the US, Canada, Israel and 47 European countries. Today, we [...]
Video: GDPR fines 2018 – 2019
It’s a new year and we took the opportunity to look at the number of fines issued during 2018 and 2019. Contrary to what many believes, the number of fines is substantial across Europe, and [...]
Humidity. Price: €320 000
The english data protection authority, ICO, has issued a fine of €320 000 against Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd. After a tip, the ICO has physically found that Doorstep has stored a large number of paper documents, containing [...]
Weak authorization. Price: €9 550 000
The German teleoperator 1 & 1 Telecom GmbH has been fined 9.55 million euro for non-compliance with the GDPR. It has been found that customers only had to state name and birth date to access [...]
American Cloud Act a threat to other nations sovereignty?
During the week, the debate about the potential problem with cloud services owned by US companies has taken off in Sweden. At the beginning of the week, the GöteborgsPosten concluded that the Cloud Act allows US authorities to access both classified information and [...]
Data Protection Officers personally liable for fines
Right now, the question of personal liability for employees are being tried in their role as data protection officers in both Switzerland and the UK. In both cases, companies that have suffered costs under the [...]
Not performing a privacy inventory of unstructured data. Price: €14 500 000
It finally happened. The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has imposed an administrative fine of about EUR 14.5 million against Deutsche Wohnen SE for infringements of the GDPR in their unstructured data. Deutsche [...]
Privacy is contagious
4% of the annual turnover, or €20 Million euros, whichever is highest. That is the maximum fines according to GDPR. What this means is becoming more and more obvious, starting with Marriots §123 Million fine [...]