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On the eve of the hearing of an appeal by Google in a potential landmark case in the world of online behavioural advertising and privacy, there has been a significant development. George Garrard reports.
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German privacy regulator imposes €1,300,000 fine on insurance giant Debeka
After its sales staff allegedly sought address data of business customers’ employees in order to offer them Debeka’s consumer products, the Rhineland Palatinate privacy authority handed down a large fine and obtained undertakings. Flemming Moos of Osborne Clarke Hamburg reports.
European Commission’s 2015 work programme published
A directive simplifying Europe’s laws on misleading and comparative advertising and an “evaluation” of the E-Privacy Directive are just two of the items relevant to advertisers in the EC’s “to do” list for 2015. Hannah Willson reports.
Pitiful penalty for abuse of EE’s customer database
Matthew Devlin, a director of three marketing and telecoms companies, used subterfuge to access details of hundreds of EE’s customers, then used these to promote his competing services. Did the courts throw the book at him? Hannah Willson reports.
New device fingerprinting opinion from Article 29 Working Party
Government nuisance call taskforce makes recommendations
The EU is coming to get you!
The slides are here.
Sting in tail of proposed lower threshold for nuisance call penalties
Bavarian DPA takes tough line on email encryption
Privacy challenges of apps and beacons
The slides are available here.
ICO publishes draft privacy seal scheme
Information Commissioner’s Annual Report
“Consumers are fed up with being taken for fools by big brands” says head UK privacy law enforcer Christopher Graham in the foreword to his Annual Report and Financial Statements 2013-2014. What’s eating the data regulator? Emma Harrington reports.
