Companies in the technology sector, as well as political and commercial organizations, have to pay over €4 billion in fines ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

Europe’s data protection regulators issued over €1bn ($1.1bn) in GDPR fines since January 2021, a massive 594% year-on-year increase, according to international law firm DLA Piper. The firm’s annual ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has brought significant changes to how companies handle personal data—and cookies are easily one of the largest sources of personal information for ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), through Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued another fine against a large US technology company. What may ...

Although Google has postponed the phaseout of third-party cookies to 2023, many in the advertising world still wonder how a cookieless era will affect the industry. Criticisms surrounding Google’s ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

Nearly €1.1 billion (U.S. $1.2 billion) worth of fines have been issued against organizations in the past year for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to the latest annual ...

Sweden has a long history of data privacy. In fact, it was the first country in the world to adopt data privacy legislation, with the 1973 Data Act. Swedish data protection legislation has evolved ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry following last month's news reports of a massive Twitter data leak. This leak affected over 5.4 million Twitter users and included ...

Motherboard/Vice had an explosive report on Facebook’s business yesterday that’s sure to raise fresh questions over the lack of enforcement of European privacy laws against the adtech giant. The ...