I can remember when my eldest daughter started walking. The joy of seeing her take her first steps and becoming independent, and then, at about two years old, the horror. Knowing that her steps were ...

What is European Charter of Fundamental Rights? Before we understand what GDPR is, we need to know that the European Union guarantees the same fundamental data protection to all residents of EU – be ...

Let’s all take a minute to appreciate the view in the British Airways social media cockpit, where staffers at the coalface of the airline’s Twitter account have presided over a wildly unusual ...

Data is breached every single day but most of these breaches don’t make headlines. When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect May 25, 2018, many companies who ...

Of course, we are all aware of the privacy issues now in the news about Facebook and other major networking sites. The European Union has been thinking about this much longer, and a new regulation ...

WHOIS, the searchable “phonebook” of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR — or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is. The WHOIS internet domain directory is at the center ...

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May, Nestlé Germany was ready. As a result, Nestlé Germany has had to carefully construct its programmatic strategy. While the company ...

The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When asked why the company waited three months to inform users about the ...