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Latest news on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory developments, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world.

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Data Protection News

EU Wants Data Protection to Go Hand in Hand with Trade Deals

March 12, 2018

Personal data protection is a fundamental EU right and is not negotiable in trade deals, The European Commission has provided four conditions for international data flows to comply with the GDPR. Yet, there is a “get out of jail free card,” allowing restrictions to be reviewed and accorded "sympathetic" consideration.

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Data Privacy News

EU Watchdog Offers Insights and Guidance into Use of Cookies and Internet Tracking

April 28, 2020

Irish DPC publishes report and guidance on the use of cookies and Internet tracking after conducting a ‘cookie sweep’ to observe how they were used on popular websites.

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Data Protection News

EU-US Data Transfer Crisis Escalates as Facebook Speculates About Pulling Out of the Region

October 6, 2020

It appears that for some, including the biggest names in tech, the possibility of pulling out of Europe over the new Schrems data transfer requirements is not entirely off the table.

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Data Protection News

EU’s Lead Privacy Regulator Set to Deliver Landmark GDPR Decision in Twitter Case; WhatsApp Decision Reaches Preliminary Draft Stage

June 4, 2020

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.

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Data Protection News

EU’s New Digital Markets and Digital Services Act Increase Antitrust Pressure on Big Tech

December 29, 2020

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.

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Data Privacy News

European Central Bank CBDC Survey Finds Privacy Is The Number One Concern For Digital Euro

May 5, 2021

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.

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Data Privacy News

European Commercial Spyware Company Hit With US Sanctions

March 26, 2024

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.

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Data Protection News

European Commission Changes to EU Privacy Laws Skewered by Privacy Advocates

November 19, 2025

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.

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Cyber Security News

European Commission Cloud Infrastructure Security Breach Leaks Hundreds of Gigabytes of Data

April 2, 2026

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.

External view of the modern metal and glass palaces which house the European Parliament showing Data Act data sharing rules

Data Protection News

European Commission Draft Data Act Lays Out Data Sharing Obligations for Device Manufacturers, Industrial Systems

March 4, 2022

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.

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EU Watchdog Offers Insights and Guidance into Use of Cookies and Internet Tracking

EU-US Data Transfer Crisis Escalates as Facebook Speculates About Pulling Out of the Region

EU’s New Digital Markets and Digital Services Act Increase Antitrust Pressure on Big Tech

European Central Bank CBDC Survey Finds Privacy Is The Number One Concern For Digital Euro

European Commercial Spyware Company Hit With US Sanctions

Self-Propagating Malware ChainDrop Hits Over 400 NPM Packages in Massive Supply Chain Attack

Russian Hackers Exploit Hotel Wi-Fi Networks to Compromise Microsoft 365 Accounts

Claude’s Great Escape: Anthropic AI Models Join OpenAI Agents in Hacking Their Way Out of Sandboxes

Leak of Microsoft Meeting Documents Indicates Company Is Struggling to Keep Up With Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Mythos