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 personal data - without using the normal routines for intergovernmental requests.Instead , according to the Cloud Act , US authorities can request data from US...
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 GDPR are seeking compensation from the Data Protection Officers, who...
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 Whonen SE is a real estate company and are being fined for having an archiving...
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 this summer and connecting to the fine of €200 000 towards German delivery firm...
The Austrian post company Österreichische Post AG has been fined €180 million by the Austrian data protection authority.Österreichische Post has created, and resold, a register containing personal data about closer to 3 million Austrian citizens. As a legal ground for this processing,Österreichische...
Speech from E-förvaltningsdagarna 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden.In swedish only, please contact us for an English transcript.https://youtu.be/41rrsKhf8Xc...
Since the beginning of telecommunication, there has been a mismatch between how the service is billed, and the value the customer gets from it.Measuring the number of minutes for the call’s duration does not in any way reflect the actual value of the call. The,...
The Swedish DPA, Datainspektionen, uses its rights to issue fine for breaches of GDPR. A high school in Skellefteå has tried using a camera with facial recognition to register student’s presence in class.Biometric data, that are used for facial recognition, are considered as special categories of personal...
Following an extensive investigation, The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK intends to fine Marriott International €110 290 061 for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).The proposed fine relates to a cyber incident which was notified to the ICO by Marriott in November 2018. A variety of...
Our CEO Karl-Oskar Brännström got an invitation to Scandinavia´s no1 privacy podcast, Dataministeriet.A conversation with LL.M Anders Bäckström och Filip Johnssén.Unfortunately only available in Swedishhttps://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1458808673/dataministeriet/s01e08-ostrukturerat-material-pusha-in-skit-gast-karl-oskar-brannstrom ...