DATA BREACH

WhatsApp gets High Court permission to challenge €225 million fine in Ireland

WhatsApp will challenge an order by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) where the commission ordered to pay a fine of €225 million for data breach. The European arm of WhatsApp secured permission from a High Court to challenge the order by DPC in last August. DPC had accused WhatsApp of breaching European Union’s General Data … Read more

UK regulator fines Facebook with £50.5 million; Says ‘No company is above the law’

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Facebook a mammoth £50.5 million (€60 million approx.) for breaching an order imposed during an investigation about the company’s purchase of GIF platform Giphy. Facebook had deliberately failed to comply with this order, and the penalty served as a warning that no company was above the law- … Read more