the Commission issued modernised standard contractual clauses under the GDPR for data transfers from controllers or processors in the EU/EEA (or otherwise subject to the GDPR) to controllers or processors established outside the EU/EEA (and not subject to the GDPR).
Věra Jourová says new rules are needed to limit the bulk collection of Europeans’ data.
The European Commission will on Friday adopt revamped data transfer tools with more legal and privacy safeguards to allow companies to transfer Europeans’ data securely around the world.
The Colorado Senate unanimously passed the Colorado Privacy Act after amending the bill to add back many of the privacy protections previously.
Europe’s top human rights court ruled that British mass surveillance and intelligence-gathering practices breached human rights laws.
German parliament adopted a law regulating data protection and privacy in telecommunications and telemedia.
Proposed EU rules targeting Facebook, Google and other large online platforms should include privacy rights for users as well as their right to anonymity.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google.
the Ecuadorian National Assembly unanimously approved the Organic Law on Data Protection, which is based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Companies have begun to face costly problems abroad while they wait a new privacy deal.
Ddata privacy scandal in Japan involving Rikunabi—a major job-seeking platform that calculated and sold companies algorithmic scores which predicted how likely individual job applicants would decline a job offer—has underscored how users’ behavioral data can be used against their best interests.
Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for all things digital, gives us her insight into global data, data sharing, big tech, the Data Governance Act and the reality of policy and implementation.