2023 got off to a good start: Shortly after the turn of the year, there was a bang in the world of data protection. The Irish data protection authority DPC has rather reluctantly imposed a fine of 390 million euros on the Facebook group Meta Platforms because it has been hiding information on the use of customer data in the terms and conditions for years and has not obtained explicit tracking consent. Meta will probably take legal action in Ireland against this direct attack on its business model.
dr Thomas Schwenke in the c’t podcast A matter of interpretation
In the c’t data protection podcast Interpretation Matter, editor Holger Bleich and Heise’s legal advisor Joerg Heidrich talk in detail about the origins and possible consequences of the case as part of the popular “Fine of the Week” section. But this is only the beginning of a moody look back at the data protection year 2022, which the two of them almost traditionally accompany dr Thomas Schwenke dare. Schwenke advises as a lawyer on the topics of data protection, social media and marketing, and produces together with the radio journalist Marcus Richter Podcast “Legal Advice”.
In retrospect, there are topics such as the infamous Google Fonts warning wave, sensational fines, tripping steps towards a new EU-US data transfer agreement, dubious EU legislative initiatives, artificial intelligence (AI), and of course cookies. The group of three also dares to make some predictions about what the data protection world could be most concerned about in 2023.
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