ICO bolsters data protection rights for children in the digital world with the introduction of a new Age Appropriate Design Code

ICO bolsters data protection rights for children in the digital world with the introduction of a new Age Appropriate Design Code

Following a lengthy consultation process, the Information Commissioner’s Office has this month published the draft Age Appropriate Design Code (the Code). The Code, which is designed to be read alongside the existing provisions of the GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018, is intended to bolster the standards online services should meet to protect children’s […]

Data Export – preliminary opinion in CJEU on Schrems v FaceBook II looks positive for standard contract clauses

Readers of these posts will be familiar with the ban, under Chapter V of GDPR, on exporting personal data outside the EEA except to approved third countries, or where other safeguards are put in place. One of those safeguards is a set of European Commission approved contract clauses that can be put in place between […]

€14M fine for German property company not deleting old personal data

German property company Deutsche Wohnen SE has been fined €14.4 Million for breaches of GDPR by the Berlin data supervisory authority in Germany.  This is reported to represent 2% of the company’s global turnover, so is only half the maximum fine that could have been imposed under GDPR. It’s worth noting that this time the […]

ICO proposes £184M fine for British Airways in first major GDPR sanction

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, today announced that it has provisionally determined that British Airways (BA) must pay a substantive fine for breach of the GDPR, in relation to a data breach that BA suffered in June 2018.  The reports state that the incident in part involved user traffic […]

Danish furniture company fined for deletion failure

The Danish Data Protection Agency (DPA) has recommended a fine of 1.5 million Danish kroner (approx. £180,000) for a furniture company that failed to delete the data of about 385,000 customers. The company in question, IDdesign, had been the subject of a supervisory visit by the DPA in autumn 2018. Prior to the visit, IDdesign […]