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French operator Orange fined €50m for ads in users’ inboxes
The telecommunications operator interspersed adverts between emails without obtaining appropriate consent from millions of customers.
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Finnish DPO fines Posti €2.4m for GDPR violations with electronic mailbox
The company allegedly illegally processed customer data when creating a new electronic mailbox for two million customers that haven’t requested the service.
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Norway aims to become the world’s most digitized country
A new strategy from the government sets out clear goals for the “digital Norway of the future.”
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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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IMY and Swedish banks in GDPR project to reduce money laundering
The Swedish Data Protection Authority and four banks will investigate better information sharing to fight financial crime.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.
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13 million MediSecure customers’ data compromised in ransomware attack
Personal and sensitive information such as prescription medication details was stolen by a malicious actor in a ransomware attack earlier this year.
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TracFone to pay $16m to settle investigation of data protection failures
The Verizon owned company failed to keep customer data safe during three breaches.