Tag: Privacy

Google fined €50M by the CNIL under the GDPR

This 21 January 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – the “CNIL“) fined Google LLC 50 million Euros for breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR“).

In today’s communication (in French), the French authority issued the highest fine against Google LLC since 25 May 2018 considering severe infringements of the GDPR by Google for failing to inform properly the users and collecting valid consent for targeted advertising services.… Plus...

GDPR: Portuguese hospital fined €400k for bad access controls to patient data | ICT

Portugal initiates fines under the GDPR in the EU. The data protection supervisory authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) issued a €400k fine against a hospital for three infringements of the GDPR. This article is the opportunity to analyse two elements:

  • looking back at a few important decisions and ruling that we have seen since 25 May 2018; and
  • understand what is the current situation with Swiss hospitals from a privacy perspective.
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