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. Read More
SOMI contends that Palantir could be participating in both knowing and unknowing privacy violations based on its involvement with "predictive policing" technologies. Read More
It's fair to say that TikTok is having an even rougher 2020 than most companies with French privacy regulator CNIL opening a probe into parent company ByteDance's operations. Read More
Google threatened to cut a consortium of European media companies off from its network of personalized ads if they followed through their plans to use new TCF data privacy measures to prevent data collection. Read More
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. Read More
Survey shows that Europeans are definitely more aware of their data protection rights and have much lesser trust in private companies compared to the public bodies. Read More
European Commission announced an interoperability solution for decentralized coronavirus infection track and trace apps that relies on a gateway service to share information between EU countries. Read More
Recent disclosure reveals the EU parliament suffered a major data breach exposing sensitive data of over 1,200 elected members of the European Parliament alongside 15,000 other accounts of EU affairs professionals. Read More
The European strategy for data encourages data sharing but will be faced with problems of competition between companies, and issues of privacy and data protection. Read More
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. Read More