Vinted in the crosshairs of several European regulators

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Is the second-hand app Vinted (45 million unique users by the end of May 2021) compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (G.D.P.R.) framework?

The Lithuanian data protection authority is leading a review of Vinted, created in 2018 and based in Vilnius, alongside French and Polish counterparts. The group will investigate the practices of the digital marketplace because Vinted received a large number of complaints from users about data protection. The team will foc

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