Parents are giving tons of their kids’ personal data away
On average, parents will post more than 1,000 images of their children online before they’re old enough to have their […]
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Cambridge Analytica Knew How You’d Vote If You Wore Wrangler
The whistle-blower behind the Cambridge Analytica revelations said the now-defunct data research firm used the fashion preferences of Facebook Inc. […]
Does the EDPB answer frequently asked questions on territorial scope?
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB , the successor to the Article 29 Working Party) has issued guidelines (for consultation) […]
Google facing mounting pressure over tracking tactics
Google’s data privacy practices are attracting the regulator attention, due to the search engine’s tracking of user locations, the BBC […]
Data watchdogs seek ‘added value’ in GDPR cloud codes
A revised version of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct was published earlier this month. It is the latest version […]
Marriott Hacking Exposes Data of Up to 500 Million Guests
Marriott International acknowledged on Friday that an “unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information” belonging to about 500 million customers […]
Facebook’s Failure to End ‘Public by Default’
With one simple change, Facebook could pass an important privacy test. Right now, users have little choice in the public […]
GDPR vs. CCPA
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (‘GDPR’) and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (‘CCPA’) both aim […]
GDPR territorial guide has ‘sting in tail’ for US companies
Guidance published by an EU data protection watchdog on the territorial scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is […]
DP Impact Assessments: EDPB Differs Slightly from ICO Position
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has recently published its Opinion on the (United Kingdom) Information Commissioner’s list of processing […]
Brexit and data protection – what’s new now?
EU leaders have signed off the withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU, as well as the political declaration […]
New EDPB Guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR
On 26 November 2018, the WP29’s successor, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published, Guidelines on the territorial scope of […]