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First GDPR sanctions are underway: the German case

On 22 November 2018, the Baden-Württenberg Data Protection Authority (LfDI) announced, with a press release available here in German, of having imposed a € 20.000 sanction on the chat site Knuddels.de, for breach of Art. 32 of the GDPR. Knuddels is an online chat service that was popular in the 2000s, before the Facebook era.… Read More »

Italian DPA forces an Italian Party to update its CMS

Recently the Italian Data Protection Authority obliged an italian party Movimento Cinque Stelle to update its web site Content Management System, reserving the right to apply administrative sanctions  ex art. 162 of Italian Privacy Code dlgs. 196/2003 vedi http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/7400401 How many companies have their site CMS out of date? Perhaps it is better to hurry up.