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Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing
Norway’s Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned advertising company, $9.6M (NOK 92 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country.
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Norway’s Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned advertising company, $9.6M (NOK 92 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. “We issued such a high fine in this case because the breaches we identified were very serious,” said Line Coll, Director General of Datatilsynet.
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