McDonald’s Hit with a €4 Million GDPR Fine: How Secure Are Your Vendors?

mcdonalds McDonald's Hit with a €4 Million GDPR Fine: How Secure Are Your Vendors? Ihr externer Datenschutzbeauftragter in Berlin | sofortdatenschutz.de

The Polish Data Protection Authority (UODO) has fined McDonald’s Poland nearly €4 million (16.9 million PLN). The reason: a chain of security failures that led to a major data breach involving employee information. This case is a textbook example of how data protection responsibility can’t simply be outsourced to third-party vendors and why fundamental GDPR … Read more

Gender of customers isn’t a necessary requirement for online ticket purchases

25 Gender of customers isn't a necessary requirement for online ticket purchases Ihr externer Datenschutzbeauftragter in Berlin | sofortdatenschutz.de

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in case C-394/23 (Mousse) that requesting a customer’s gender when purchasing a train ticket online is not a necessary requirement for a railway company. This request violates the principle of data minimization under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in this case, highlighting that companies must limit … Read more