Norway Fines Microsoft Ad Firm 92 Million Kroner Over Grindr Data: The Consent Chain You Never Verified
Norway’s biggest-ever privacy fine lands on a Microsoft ad firm that assumed someone else’s consent was good enough Datatilsynet, Norway’s data protection authority, has fined Xandr, the advertising business now run as Microsoft Advertising, NOK 92 million (roughly $9.6 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing the sensitive data of Grindr users. The agency called it…