In this episode Jyri and Pilvi try to overcome their urge to discuss anything else but privacy and just be negative and tired of how the world is going, and after a while they actually somewhat succeed in that–or perhaps succeed is a bit of a strong word. 

In any case, we discuss the current world politics situation and how it might affect the DPF and data transfers to China, not to mention that Latombe I had its day in court. The political situation might also affect the coming GDPR revamp, but in which way?

We also discuss the following cases:

• Meta’s and X’s decisions to teach their AIs with public posts by its users and what the Hamburg, Irish, and Norwegian DPAs have to say about it;

• A case from ireland: Is the employer a controller for the employee’s personal life data in their work phone?

• Amazon losing the appeal for MEUR 746 GDPR fines;

• Spanish DPA giving out EUR 500K fine for the processor that added sub-processors without a proper authorization by the controller.

This, and much more that you never wanted to hear on this episode!

 

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LINKS:

Meta & X’s AI decisions:

https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-starts-ai-training-with-personal-data

 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/meta-to-start-training-its-ai-models-on-public-content-in-the-eu/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/irish-regulator-investigates-x-over-use-eu-personal-data-train-grok-ai-2025-04-11/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

 

Hypothetical damages:

https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&Sort=12288&nr=140810&anz=1159&pos=12

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=BGH_VI_ZR_109/23&mtc=today

Work phone:

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=High_Court_-_McShane_v_Data_Protection_Commission_(2025)_IEHC_191&mtc=today

 

Amazon fines:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-loses-court-fight-against-record-812-mln-luxembourg-privacy-fine-2025-03-19/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

 

Spanish fines:

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=AEPD_(Spain)_-_EXP202307719&mtc=today