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Avast hit with multimillion-euro fine for GDPR failure

31

Mar

2023

Cybersecurity and antivirus company Avast has been hit with a €13.7 million ($14.9 million) fine for processing customers’ data illegally as per GDPR requirements. Spanish not-for-profit NGO Facua, which focuses on consumer rights matters, made Spain’s Agency for Data Protection aware that Avast had collected and sold private browsing data, including identifying data, without knowledge […]

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California v. Congress: Data Protection Law Showdown

06

Jan

2023

When it comes to data protection laws, the United States has long lagged behind Europe, whose General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018 as the gold standard in data protection. Also, in 2018, California passed the California Privacy Protection Act, further expanding it to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in 2020. […]

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Meta fined €390M over GDPR breaches for its ad and data handling practices

05

Jan

2023

European Union (EU) regulators have found that the way Meta uses targeted advertising across Facebook and Instagram is illegal in the region, and has issued both services with fines totalling €390 million. A statement(opens in new tab) given by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) claims that the company has three months to change up its […]

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