European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in 2019, after a majority of EU data supervisors agreed to back ...

The global chaos created by COVID-19 has proven to be a stress test for modern governance. The pandemic and its fallout have proven especially revealing in the context of European data policy, which ...

The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect since May 2018. The law’s goal of protecting EU citizens’ personal information and privacy seems to be coming ...

Brave, a maker of a pro-privacy browser, has lodged complaints with the European Commission against 27 EU Member States for under resourcing their national data protection watchdogs. It’s asking the ...

Poor funding of national data protection authorities across Europe leaves large companies able to circumvent the rules, a new report has warned. On the second anniversary of the EU’s general data ...

Is GDPR on the verge of failing? That is the stark question posed by the privacy-led browser Brave where campaigner Dr Johnny Ryan has long been warning that the new law was not being properly ...

“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping Tom to install your window blinds” – John Perry Barlow, EFF (July 1992). Any individual who has the slightest engagement in ...

After more than two years, GDPR enforcement trends are beginning to emerge. We are seeing the types of enforcement actions that data protection authorities (DPAs) across the European Union (EU) are ...

It's been over a year and the proposed GDPR fines against Marriott and British Airways haven't been finalized yet. Lawyers argue the delay stems from the challenge of setting a precedent that puts a ...

Privacy Shield 2.0 will reinstate a framework for companies in the U.S. to follow to ensure their data processing and transfer activities are compliant with the GDPR ...

For example, the GDPR, introduced in 2018, inspired the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which passed in the ...