ICO probes complaints following allegations Wagamama used Covid-19 track and trace data to survey customers
Wagamama customers in the UK have allegedly been sent a survey after sharing contact details for Covid-19 contact tracing, The […]
ePrivacy
EU Council Presidency Releases Progress Report on Draft ePrivacy Regulation
On June 3, 2020, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (“the Presidency”) published a progress report on […]
EU Civil Liberties Committee Monitoring Use of Tracking Technology to Fight COVID-19
The head of the EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee says the group is monitoring efforts to use smartphone data tracking […]
Irish DPC Publishes New Cookie Guidance
On April 6, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) published a report summarizing the DPC’s findings following a cookie sweep […]
CNIL Unveils 2020 Inspection Strategy and Announces Cookie Investigations
On March 12, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released its annual inspection strategy for 2020. The CNIL […]
EU Presidency releases revised draft ePrivacy Regulation
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union released revised text of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation (Regulation concerning the […]
EU publishes revised draft ePrivacy Regulation
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 21 February 2020 published revised text of the proposed ePrivacy […]
Croatian Presidency tempers expectations on ePrivacy progress
The Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union is the just the latest EU presidency to try to […]
CNIL launches a public consultation on its draft recommendation on “cookies and other trackers”
On 4 July 2019, the CNIL published guidelines on the application of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act. […]
Research reveals that most websites are not compliant with GDPR and ePrivacy Directive
Research has found that only 11.8% of consent management platforms (CMPs) meet the minimal requirements under GDPR and Europe’s eDirective […]
Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules
Most cookie consent pop-ups served to internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission to track people’s web […]
GDPR will force programmatic advertising to evolve in 2020
GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive in 2018, and for companies who use programmatic advertising, it could be the key […]