SypherPrivacyTalks - April 2025 - Week 18
by Sypher | Published in News - April 28, 2025
Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.
Google won’t ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all
🍪 After years of work on the Privacy Sandbox, Google has decided not to move forward with a planned feature to disable third-party cookies. According to Anthony Chavez, VP of the Privacy Sandbox initiative, cookie support will remain in place for the foreseeable future. Google isn't abandoning the Privacy Sandbox entirely, but its role is changing… read more
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Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online
🕵️♂️ Privacy group NOYB has filed a GDPR complaint against Ubisoft for forcing players online to play single-player games and collecting their data unnecessarily. The case, brought in Austria, accuses Ubisoft of violating data protection laws and calls for fines and changes to its practices.… read more
Owner of eMAG and Fashion Days fined €10,000 for emails
💶 Online retailer Dante International SA, which operates the eMAG and Fashion Days platforms in Romania, has been fined €10,000 under the GDPR.
A customer reported that the company had processed their personal data - specifically, the email addresses associated with their account on one of the two platforms - without consent, according to the National Authority for the Supervision of the Processing of Personal Data (ANSPDCP).… read more
Meta to restart AI training on Europeans’ public Facebook and Instagram posts
🤖 Social media giant Meta announced on 14 April that it would begin using publicly available data from users in the European Union to train its artificial AI models, according to an Associated Press report.
The company said it would use public posts and comments from adult users across the 27-member bloc to train its AI systems.…read more
Personal data held on a work phone belongs to you or your employer?
📳 The article examines who owns data on work devices when personal use is involved. Citing the Irish case McShane v Data Protection Commission and Health Service Executive [2025] IEHC 191, it concludes that employers typically retain ownership of data on work-issued phones... read more
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