The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is launching this year’s coordinated effort. This year, the topic is the right to erasure, and the Danish Data Protection Authority is participating for the third year in a row. During 2025, 32 supervisory authorities in the EU/EEA will carry out various efforts focusing on the right to erasure. The right to erasure means that a data subject – with certain exceptions – has the right to have information about him or her deleted….
Read moreDANISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: EDPB adopts opinion on age verification
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has adopted an opinion on age assurance at its latest meeting. At its meeting on 11 February 2025, the EDPB considered a wide range of matters. It was decided, among other things, to extend the task force previously set up by the Council to coordinate the enforcement activities of the European data protection authorities in relation to ChatGPT to cover the enforcement of AI more generally, including in the light of DeepSeek. In addition, an opinion…
Read moreDANISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: Berlingske complies with the Danish Data Protection Agency’s order in the case of a cookie wall on berlingske.dk
The Danish Data Protection Authority has assessed that Berlingske is now complying with the order that the authority issued to the company in February 2024. On 14 February 2024, the Danish Data Protection Authority made a decision on Berlingske’s use of a cookie wall on berlingske.dk. The Authority found that Berlingske’s approach, where users on berlingske.dk could only access embedded content by giving consent to the processing of personal data for statistical and marketing purposes, did not meet the requirements…
Read moreDANISH SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: FC Copenhagen receives permission to use automatic facial recognition
The Danish Data Protection Authority has – following an application from FC Copenhagen – granted permission for the club to use facial recognition at FC Copenhagen football matches. In its application on 5 April 2024, FC Copenhagen requested permission to process sensitive information pursuant to Section 7(4) of the Danish Data Protection Act. The application included processing of biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person using automatic facial recognition when holding any event at Parken and for…
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