Flood of Complaints to EU Countries Since Data Law Adopted
More than 95,000 complaints have been filed with EU countries since the bloc’s flagship data protection laws took effect eight […]
GDPR News
Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?
Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising […]
Microsoft Chief Calls for ‘Global Standard’ on Privacy
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised the EU’s GDPR and called […]
Online Threats for Businesses with Remote Employees
Remote working is finally becoming mainstream, with around 70% of people working remotely at least once per week. This represents […]
Austria’s Post Office under fire over data sharing
Austria’s national post office found itself under fire Tuesday for collecting and selling information about customers’ political allegiances in what […]
Inside Facebook’s fight against European regulation
Dozens of Commission documents show how the tech giant pushed back against rules on issues ranging from copyright to privacy. […]
A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads
More than half of Facebook’s users are unhappy with the major thrust of the company’s business model—surveillance-based advertising. While Facebook […]
EU agrees to fine parties for data misuse in elections
The European Parliament and EU countries agreed, Wednesday, on new election rules according to which European party found to have […]
Lessons for Corporate Boardrooms From Yahoo’s Cybersecurity Settlement
The former officers and directors of Yahoo agreed to pay $29 million to settle charges that they breached their fiduciary […]
Irish DPA asks Supreme Court to uphold ruling in Facebook case
Facebook wants to alter High Court findings on issues concerning the validity of EU-US data transfer channels because it “doesn’t […]
Validity of consent coupled with free online services
The Austrian Data Protection Authority, headed by the chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), provided a clear way […]
Cybersecurity in Europe is improving: Thank you GDPR?
After years of debate over whether to impose new cybersecurity regulations on companies, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws went […]