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January 28, 2021

EU and UK discuss state of play for UK adequacy, data transfers

Representatives from the European Commission and U.K. government discuss the state of U.K. adequacy in the wake of Brexit.

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January 28, 2021

Tech companies warn EU lawmakers over ‘anti-encryption’ push

Four European apps which secure user data via end-to-end encryption, ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota, have issued a joint-statement warning over recent moves by EU institutions that they say are setting lawmakers on a dangerous path to backdooring encryption.

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January 27, 2021

EU Parliament Guidelines Call for Moratorium on Facial Recognition

In a report released January 20, 2021 the European Parliament proposed a moratorium on use of facial recognition technology in public and semi-public spaces

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January 23, 2021

Monitoring of Employees Faces under Scrutiny in Europe

European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.

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January 23, 2021

An EU parliament website for COVID testing allegedly broke the EU’s privacy laws

The European Parliament is being investigated by the European Data Protection Supervisor after allegations that its COVID testing website didn’t meet EU privacy standards.

January 22, 2021

Brussels zeroes in on Google’s adtech business

The European Commission is mulling two new probes into the tech giant.

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January 20, 2021

EUR 272.5m in fines imposed by European regulators under GDPR

EUR 272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of Europe’s tough data protection laws

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January 17, 2021

EDPB & EDPS adopt joint opinions on new sets of SCCs

The EDPB and EDPS have adopted joint opinions on two sets of contractual clauses (SCCs). One opinion on the SCCs for contracts between controllers and processors and one on the SCCs for the transfer of personal data to third countries.

January 15, 2021

Facebook’s EU-US data transfers face their final countdown

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has agreed to swiftly finalize a long-standing complaint against Facebook’s international data transfers for EU to US.