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Regulatory fines, investigations, and legal actions by privacy authorities worldwide against organizations violating personal data protection laws.
ICO reprimanded the Metropolitan Police for putting data on 179 people into Auror, a platform that had no data protection impact assessment. The force has tightened procedures since, but the regulator says it still is not ensuring that only approved tools are used.
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The Data Protection Commission found four kinds of GDPR infringement across three location features and gave Google six months to comply. It has not yet published the full decision that says what complying means.
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France's data regulator has fewer than 10 workplace complaints about smart glasses on file and says a recording light is not adequate notice on its own. Companies are already asking it whether they can ban the glasses at the door.
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Paris prosecutors have opened at least one criminal case over street videos of women filmed without consent. The data regulator has fewer than ten workplace complaints on file and a growing queue of employers asking about bans.
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The ICO counts cookie compliance among the country's most visited websites, while Swansea researchers tested 624 licensed gambling sites against a different measure, and the enforcement record in that sector runs to a single reprimand.
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The Solicitor General's suit asks ten times what the data regulator itself could fine, and the agency has opened proceedings against 22 platforms. Enforcement in Brazil now arrives with invoice numbers.
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A dev.to guide reads the 2024-25 ICO record as a demonstrability test: over 12 million pounds in fines landed on breached organisations that could not show their controls. The arithmetic lands in the backlog.
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The R$153.7m penalty covers guest browsing, so the breach is the collection rather than the age check. Every remedy the agency ordered except the deletion applies only to accounts.
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Polish authorities are investigating a compromise at clinical software supplier MyDr that may have exposed data on nearly 19 million people and more than 12,000 medical facilities.
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