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Mentions in press and media 18
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| Sep 28, 2023 | Norway seeks to extend ban on Meta’s consentless tracking ads across the EU | Norway’s data protection authority has asked a European Union regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency sanction on Facebook and Instagram tracking and profiling users for ad targeting without their consent should be mad... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Meta denied injunction against Norway’s ban order on its surveillance ads | Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway’s data protection authority imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in July. The order also provides for daily fines for non-compliance. An Oslo District cour... |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Грузия проверит законность обработки данных пользователей «Яндекс Go» | «Учитывая высокий общественный интерес, сервис незамедлительно проинформирует о результатах исследования», — сказано в сообщении. Там также рекомендуют пользователям внимательно проверять сведения о том, к каким данным на их устройствах у п... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram | Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures on Meta’s business, which has been made ... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Órgão norueguês irá multar a Meta em US$ 100 mil por violação de privacidade | O Datatilsynet, regulador de Proteção de Dados da Noruega, anunciou nesta segunda-feira (17) que irá multar a Meta em um milhão de coroas (US$ 100 mil) por dia após a dona do Instagram e Facebook violar regras de privacidade do país. Segund... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Norway Ban’s Meta’s Behavioral Advertising, Threatens $100,000/Day Fine | Meta has run afoul of Norwegian Data Protection Authority, with the latter banning the company’s behavioral advertising and threatening a $100,000-a-day fine. Norway’s regulatory agency took issue with Meta’s practice of tracking user activ... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Grindr’s $7M GDPR fine is a stark warning to adtech not to track | Grindr, a hook-up app for gay, bi, trans and queer people, has been fined around $7.1 million (65 million NOK) by Norway’s data protection authority for passing user data to advertisers without consent — including highly sensitive informati... |
| May 5, 2021 | Disqus facing $3M fine in Norway for tracking users without consent | Disqus, a commenting plug-in that’s used by a number of news websites and which can share user data for ad targeting purposes, is in hot water in Norway for tracking users without their consent. The local data protection agency said today i... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Grindr on the hook for €10M over GDPR consent violations | Grindr, a gay, bi, trans and queer hook-up app, is on the hook for a penalty of NOK100,000,000 (aka €10M or ~$12.1M) in Europe. Norway’s data protection agency has announced it’s notified the US-based company of its intention to issue the f... |
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What has the press written about Datatilsynet?
Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Datatilsynet, among them “Norway seeks to extend ban on Meta’s consentless tracking ads across the EU” (Sep 28, 2023) and “Meta denied injunction against Norway’s ban order on its surveillance ads” (Sep 6, 2023).
Is Datatilsynet still active?
Yes, Datatilsynet is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 15, 2024.