SypherPrivacyTalks - May 2025 - Week 20

Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.

Simplification of record-keeping obligation: EDPB and EDPS adopt letter to EU Commission

edpb.europa.eu/news • 3 min read

📝 The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have sent a joint letter to the European Commission voicing early support for a proposed amendment to simplify GDPR record-keeping, while urging careful assessment of its impact on organisations with fewer than 500 employees.... read more

Italy public consultation on 'Pay or Ok' model

garanteprivacy.it • 3 min read

📢 Garante, the Italian data protection authority, has announced on May 5th a public consultation to assess the lawfulness of the 'Pay or OK' model, which requires users either to subscribe or to consent to the processing of their personal data for commercial profiling. Contributions must be received within 60 days of the publication… read more (announcement in Italian)

Decathlon Romania fined for unlawful use of CCTV in employee investigation

startupcafe.ro • 2 min read

💶 The Romanian data protection authority fined Roumasport SRL, the company behind Decathlon, €5,000 for unlawfully processing employee video footage during a disciplinary investigation. The company accessed its CCTV system at one of its locations without a valid legal basis, breaching data processing principles and GDPR requirements for lawful processing… read more

EDPB adopts opinion on UK Adequacy Decision extension

hunton.com • 2 min read

📜 The EDPB issued an opinion on 5 May 2025, supporting a six-month extension of the UK's GDPR adequacy decisions, which expire in June, to allow time for the UK to finalise its proposed Data (Use and Access) Bill. Once the Bill is enacted, a full reassessment of the UK's data framework is expected.…read more

Google Ads 2024 Safety Report unveils AI protections

searchenginejournal.com • 5 min read

🎯Google's 2024 Ads Safety Report reveals stricter enforcement, AI crackdowns, and key policy shifts every marketer should be paying attention to, to combat impersonation, fraud, and policy violations, reinforcing privacy and trust in digital advertising.
Accountability is also scaling rapidly thanks to AI… read more

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