| Title | EU Court Fines European Commission for Breaching its Own Data Privacy Laws | |
| Date | Thursday January 09, @04:10PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
| Topic | ||
| from the Irony dept. | ||
They can't even follow their own rules:
A top court has ordered the European Union's top executive authority to pay €400 (around $410) in damages to a German citizen for breaching its own data protection laws.
In a statement, the EU General Court said the European Commission violated the citizen's rights by transferring some of his personal data to the United States without proper safeguards.
The court said the German citizen registered for a conference, managed by the European Commission, using the "Sign in with Facebook" option on the conference's website. But the citizen said information about his IP address, browser and device were transferred to companies in the United States — namely Amazon, which hosts the conference's website, and Meta, which owns Facebook — which the citizen said violated his rights under the bloc's data privacy rules.
The European Commission committed a "sufficiently serious breach" of the rules that cover the 27 European nations, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday. Reuters, which first reported the news, said the fine is a first for the European Commission.
The European Union has investigated itself and found ... actual wrongdoing ! For the first time ever, the EU has been found to have violated its own privacy rules established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will have to pay a fine, per a ruling handed down by the EU General Court.
The victim of the EU's brazen disregard for the law was a German citizen who used the "Sign in with Facebook" option when registering for a conference through a European Commission webpage. When the user clicked that button, data about their device, browser, and IP address were transferred through a content delivery network managed by Amazon Web Services and eventually found its way to servers operated by Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms in the United States. The court determined this transfer of data took place without proper safeguards, which amounts to a breach of GDPR rules, and the EU was ordered to pay a fine of €400 (about $412) directly to the person who brought the case.
[Source]: GIZMODO
| Links |
printed from SoylentNews, EU Court Fines European Commission for Breaching its Own Data Privacy Laws on 2025-01-24 06:58:49