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Chat app Discord fined EUR800,000 in France for GDPR violations

( November 17, 2022, 09:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Voice and text chat app Discord has been fined 800,000 euros by French data protection authority CNIL. The regulator said that the firm failed to comply with several of its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation, most notably in relation to data retention periods and data security. It also did not properly inform users about its data retention practices, failed to implement data protection by design policies and did not perform a data protection impact assessment.The statement in French follows. The decision, also in French, is attached....

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