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April 10, 2021

From California to Brazil: GDPR has created recipe for the world

As Europe’s sweeping GDPR laws approach their third anniversary, other jurisdictions around the world are taking cues from it to develop their own frameworks.

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April 9, 2021

EU data protection authorities adopt joint opinion on the Digital Green Certificate Proposals

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted a joint opinion on the Proposals for a Digital Green Certificate.

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April 8, 2021

Pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe

Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying.

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April 8, 2021

Platforms, not regulators, are driving data privacy enforcement

Unlike GDPR or CCPA, the moves Google and Apple are about to make will cause immediate shockwaves the day they are implemented.

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April 3, 2021

MEPs rue lack of GDPR sanctions issued by Irish data authority

MEPs have said that “a lack of political will and resources” had resulted in a laggard approach to enforcement of the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR).

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March 31, 2021

EU concludes the adequacy talks with South Korea

European Union and the Republic of Korea have successfully concluded the adequacy talks.

March 31, 2021

Microsoft says Ireland should have ‘a bigger voice’ on EU regulation

The tech giant’s vice president for European government affairs,Caspar Klynge, says that a more assertive Irish voice is needed to address a “balance of power” shift in the EU

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March 29, 2021

EU’s Vestager has ‘reservations’ about online privacy proposals

Vestager stressed that “it would become a very confusing situation if there was a General Data Protection Regulation and ePrivacy legislation without the two laws being aligned.

March 26, 2021

Competition challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ of users sparks referral to Europe’s top court

A German court that’s considering Facebook’s appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the country’s competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europe’s top court.

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March 26, 2021

Intensifying Negotiations on transatlantic Data Privacy Flow

The U.S. Government and the European Commission have decided to intensify negotiations on an enhanced EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework

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March 26, 2021

EU Data Privacy Watchdogs Urged to Sort Out ‘Public Squabbles’

European Union privacy regulators must sort out their “public squabbles” over the enforcement of the bloc’s data-protection rules or its executive body may consider moving to a more centralized model to target violations.