Grindr strongly disagrees with the agency’s reasoning, “which concerns historical consent practices from years ago, not our current consent practices or Privacy Policy."
European investigations into whether Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud-based services infringe EU privacy rules have once again shone a spotlight on how and when the United States and the European Union intend to come up with a new Privacy Shield.
By Neil Hodge2021-05-26T18:08:00+01:00
As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) marks its third anniversary, lawyers and data protection experts continue to raise concerns that fine decisions are largely arbitrary, vary considerably from one EU country to the next, and lack transparency.
According to Privacy Affairs, a website that compiles GDPR enforcement data, there have been 661 fines under the law as of May 17 totaling approximately €293 million (U.S. $359 million). France’s €50 million penalty against Google in 2019 remains the highest. Spain has issued a third (222) of the total number of fines logged some three times that of Italy, in second place with 73.
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Disqus facing $3M fine in Norway for tracking users without consent
Disqus, a commenting plugin that’s used by a number of news websites and which can share user data for ad targeting purposes, has got into hot water in Norway for tracking users without their consent.
The local data protection agency said today it has notified the U.S.-based company of an intent to fine it €2.5 million (~$3M) for failures to comply with requirements in Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on accountability, lawfulness and transparency.
Disqus’ parent, Zeta Global, has been contacted for comment.
Datatilsynet said it acted following a 2019 investigation in Norway’s national press which found that default settings buried in the Disqus’ plug-in opted sites into sharing user data on millions of users in markets including the U.S.