BEUC files complaint against TikTok for multiple EU consumer law breaches
TikTok’s practices for the processing of users’ personal data are misleading.
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Data watchdog rejects EU criticism over Max Schrems complaints
The DPC had been dealt a stinging rebuke by the EU’s Parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Commission reveals details on future EU robotics policy
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.
Brussels zeroes in on Google’s adtech business
The European Commission is mulling two new probes into the tech giant.
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.
Europol and the European Commission inaugurate new decryption platform
Europol has launched an innovative decryption platform, developed in close cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
European Commission Publishes Draft ‘Article 28’ Standard Contractual Clauses
In addition to issuing new (draft) standard contractual clauses for transferring personal data outside of the EEA, on November 12, […]
European Commission Publishes Draft of New Standard Contractual Clauses
On November 12, 2020, the European Commission published a draft implementing decision on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of […]
Commission presses Zoom for security assurances but continues to use platform
The European Commission is looking for further assurances from US video conferencing platform Zoom regarding the security of its technology, […]
EU Commission fears UK data protection regime ‘may change in the future’
The European Commission has concerns that certain aspects of the UK’s data protection regime may change in the future and […]
EU Commission proposes Interim Regulation on the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child abuse
The European Commission published a proposal for a measures that would provide temporary exemptions from certain ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) […]
The European Commission Considers Amending the General Data Protection Regulation to Make Digital Age of Consent Consistent
The European Commission published a Communication on its mandated two-year evaluation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on June […]