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.
The investigation is scrutinizing major cloud services that are widely used by EU agencies, such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, to determine if they are GDPR-compliant.
Cybercriminals are carrying out cyber espionage on European defense companies by posing as recruiters working in U.S. defense groups and deploying malware over LinkedIn.
The central objection raised is a predictable one, and one that some analysts believe will inevitably cause the EU-US data transfer proposal to fail yet another court challenge if it makes it to implementation: the lack of a federal-level data privacy law in the US.
A new report from DLA Piper shows that GDPR fines are being handed out more frequently, with a jump of 39% in 2020 but there remains a strong disparity in the willingness of individual regulators to issue them.
The European Space Agency has confirmed a data breach after a coalition of prolific hackers listed the stolen information for sale on the dark web hacking forum BreachForums.
The privacy policy now makes clear that TikTok user data is transferred to a number of third countries for "important functions," China among them. TikTok says it has SCCs in place that cover the data transfers.
EU rules that would force all movements of cryptocurrency to be traceable by law enforcement authorities are moving forward, which could put an end to anonymous crypto transactions in the region.
