The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing completed, in October 2024, an investigation at the operator SYNOBIS MEDICAL SRL and found: a) violation of the provisions of art. 13 paragraph (1) letter i) of Law no. 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, as subsequently amended and supplemented. b) violation of the provisions of Articles 12-14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. For the committed acts, the operator was fined 10,000 lei, as well as given a warning. The investigation…
Read moreFRENCH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Advertisements inserted between emails: 50 million euro fine against ORANGE
On November 14, 2024, the CNIL fined the company ORANGE 50 million euros, in particular for having displayed advertisements between the emails of users of its electronic messaging service, without their consent. The context ORANGE provides its customers with an electronic messaging service (“Orange Mail”). Following several checks, the CNIL found that the company was displaying, between the emails present in users’ inboxes, advertising announcements in the form of emails. Based on these findings, the restricted committee – the CNIL body responsible…
Read moreCANADIAN SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: welcomes commitment from LinkedIn to pause training of AI models using the personal information from Canadian member accounts
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne welcomes a commitment from LinkedIn to voluntarily pause its practice of using the personal information of Canadian members to train its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models while working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) to resolve its outstanding questions. Following numerous media reports indicating that LinkedIn had started training AI models using the data of individual members without having first notified individuals of the practice, the Commissioner reached out to LinkedIn to…
Read moreCANADIAN SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Statement by the Privacy Commissioner following release of ETHI Committee report on oversight of social media platforms
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne today issued the following statement regarding a new report from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) on its study on the Use of Social Media Platforms for Data Harvesting and Unethical or Illicit Sharing of Personal Information with Foreign Entities. I welcome the report by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) on important issues related to social media platforms and how they harvest, handle and share…
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