EU’s lead privacy regulator, Irish DPC, is announcing their GDPR decision if Twitter is in violation of article 33 after more than one year of investigation on the data breach incidents.
Big Tech companies are feeling more pressure in Europe with the proposal of two new antitrust policies. Together the "Digital Markets Act" and "Digital Services Act" would limit use of personal and business data.
ECB survey found that EU residents are most interested in having the proposed "digital euro" respect their privacy as the CBDC plan seeks to create a freely accessible digital means of payment.
A Europe-based company that has previously been blacklisted for its commercial spyware is now under US sanctions. The US state department blacklisted the software for trade in mid-2023.
While the proposed EU privacy law changes seem almost entirely like concessions to big tech desires at first glance, the European Commission is selling them as removement of onerous restrictions on smaller businesses. Critics such as noyb are calling this a "side-show" meant to pass changes that are instead really tailored to the tech industry.
A security breach at the European Commission has enabled a threat actor to steal hundreds of gigabytes of data from its Amazon cloud infrastructure used to manage the Europa.eu web platform.
The Data Act would make data sharing terms more easily accessible to end users, allowing them direct access to stored data and controls to limit its use and movement.
European Commission has approved a new version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for data transfer agreements in line with the Schrems II decision.
Facebook terms of service, once obfuscated by complicated, legalistic language, is going to state clearly how they provide services free of charge to consumers in return for agreement to share their personal data with third parties and used for targeted advertising.
The UK data adequacy decision was slated to expire this month, but recently received a six-month extension approval from the EDPB. The civil society groups are calling for withdrawal of this extension if the UK government does not ensure an equivalent level of data protection.
