Norton extends refund rights after CMA action, ICO imposes monetary penalty on Papa John’s for unlawful marketing messages, Ofcom seeks views on media plurality and media ownership rules, and more in this week’s round-up of UK and EU techlaw news developments not covered elsewhere on the SCL website
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In certain circumstances, a national supervisory authority may exercise its power to bring an alleged infringement of the GDPR before a court of an EU member state, although that authority is not the lead supervisory authority regarding that data processing.
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CMA concerned that their market power is harming users and other businesses
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The decision emphasises the importance of investment by the database maker.
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The CMA has secured commitments from Google to address concerns about Google’s proposal to remove third-party cookies on Chrome and work with them on the Privacy Sandbox.
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ICO fines three companies £415,000 for nuisance marketing, CMA publishes responses to its consultation on algorithms and consumer harm, BEIS consults on the future of connected and automated mobility and more in this week’s round-up of UK and EU techlaw news developments not covered elsewhere on the SCL website.
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SCCs are for use between controllers and processors and for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
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The CMA is assessing if Facebook uses information to benefit its own services while the European Commission is considering if Facebook violated EU rules by gathering data from advertisers to compete with them in providing classified ads.
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Conservative Party sent 51 marketing emails in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in July 2019
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The chapter defines anonymisation and pseudonymisation.
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