The Council of the EU has made a surprise announcement that it has approved its negotiating position on the ePrivacy Regulation, which will further reform EU cookie consent and communications content andmetadata rules in the EU.
The Portuguese presidency of the EU has pitched a new text on the controversial ePrivacy regulation, focusing on the processing of communications metadata and data stored on end-user equipment.
A legal challenge was heard today in Europe’s Court of Justice in relation to a controversial EU-funded research project using artificial intelligence for facial “lie detection” with the aim of speeding up immigration checks.
A US-registered publisher’s processing of a British resident’s personal data did not breached EU data protection laws as High Court in London ruled that the GDPR do not apply to it.
The DPC had been dealt a stinging rebuke by the EU’s Parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Robotics technologies in the EU could come under the scope of new rules as part of a series of efforts to ensure the safety of next-generation technologies, it has emerged.
Representatives from the European Commission and U.K. government discuss the state of U.K. adequacy in the wake of Brexit.
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.
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
European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.
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.
The European Commission is mulling two new probes into the tech giant.