EU body that coordinates national data protection authorities and issues common guidance on the GDPR.
Italy's Garante fined BBVA €5,508,000 after a failed sync kept one customer's marketing opt-out from the CRM unit that sent promotions for seven months. The EDPB published a €16.7M Wind Tre fine three days later.
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Hans Anders, part of KKR's 776-store Nexeye group, has pulled Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium over privacy concerns. The chain says sales were limited, so stepping away from the Dutch privacy fight cost it little.
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Google has appealed EU orders that require it to share Search data with rival engines from January 2027 and open Android to competing AI assistants. Rival product teams now have to plan around a court fight over how much data and Android access they get.
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Andrew Bosworth told an Instagram AMA that a small number of bad actors are shaping the conversation about Meta's glasses. The Information reports a camera-free version, codenamed Luna, arrives at Connect on 23 September.
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A bankruptcy auction put a dead airline's internal chat in front of Gemini, and the flight attendants' union has stalled it by arguing that deidentification standards cover consumers only. SpaceX is reportedly looking for similar data.
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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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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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