Facebook Risks EU-Wide Privacy Fights After Setback at Top Court
Facebook could be in the firing line of data privacy regulators across the European Union if the bloc’s top court […]
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Why BCR are the future of global data flows
On October 3 rd , 2017, the Irish High Court issued a decision to refer questions on the adequacy of […]
WP29 releases guidelines on administrative fines under the GDPR
The EU’s Article 29 Working Party on Friday published the final guidelines on the application and setting of administrative fines under […]
The flaws of ePrivacy: Will phones still be allowed to be smart?
What would life be like without smartphones? Hard to imagine in 2017. The European ePrivacy Regulation being debated in the […]
Takeaways from the first review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
The Commission’s review finds the Privacy Shield to have several novel elements that address the requirements laid down by the […]
LIBE votes to push Lauristin’s ePrivacy Regulation forward
Members of the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee handed privacy and data protection advocates a big win Thursday when they […]
Automated Decisions – A Right for Individuals or A Prohibition for Controllers?
The complexity of the EU General Data Protection Regulation is often alleviated by the guidance of regulatory authorities who contribute […]
EC Will Not Push For Encryption “Backdoors”, But Member States Might
The European Commission announced this week a package of counter-terrorism measures as part of its European Agenda on Security initiative. […]
Brussels promises more police access to encrypted data, but no backdoors
The European Commission insisted that it does not want to weaken encryption as part of its latest push to give […]
Scope of rules on profiling not confined to solely automated processing
Laws that place restrictions on the ‘profiling’ of individuals do not just apply to data processing completed entirely automatically, EU […]
Small businesses at risk of being overwhelmed by data protection burden
With eight months until the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the countdown is well and truly on […]
Data protection and digital single market struggle to combine in Europe
Given the extraordinary boom of the digital economy, Europeans’ data protection should be a priority, according to Director General for […]