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Ikea fined €1.1 million for spying on employees
By Sabina Weston published
News Privacy experts slam the fine as a 'slap on the wrist' and say the retailer could have faced much harsher consequences under GDPR

French e-signature startup hoping to break US dominance raises €30 million
By Sabina Weston published
News The e-signature market, dominated by the likes of DocuSign and Adobe, is expected to grow by 24.6% per year over the next decade

Privacy campaigners rally against "illegal" Clearview AI data scraping
By Bobby Hellard published
News The notorious facial recognition firm claims to have a database of more than three billion images scraped from social media sites

GDPR turns three: The biggest fines so far
By Bobby Hellard published
News More than 600 fines have been issued under the EU's data protection regulation since it came into force in 2018

Germany bans Facebook from using WhatsApp data over GDPR concerns
By Bobby Hellard published
News Hamburg's data protection commissioner issues three-month ban days before the app's new privacy policy rolls out

UK devising EU-alternative mechanism for global data sharing
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The mechanism will replace the soon-to-be invalid EU standard contractual clauses

EU proposes strict regulations to curb AI misuse
By Sabina Weston published
News The draft regulations call for the use of systems that allow ‘social scoring' by governments to be banned

Facebook faces 'mass action' lawsuit over data breach
By Zach Marzouk published
News Digital Rights Ireland is urging European Facebook users who have been affected to sign up
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