GDPR in the EU went into effect in 2018. Here's what we've learned from $1.72 billion in fines. European Union regulators have issued about $1.72 billion in fines for violations of the EU’s General ...

In the five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force, what have been the main learnings for business, and what will the future hold? On 25 May 2023, the ...

Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive ...

Data privacy has become one of the defining issues of the internet today. As big tech companies have invaded nearly every aspect of modern life, concerns have grown over how businesses collect, ...

California's new consumer privacy law, the CCPA, took effect on January 1, 2020. While enforcement didn't kick in until July 1, a recent survey by PossibleNow, a consent solutions provider, found that ...

Now that the deadline has passed and inboxes are no longer stuffed with requests for opt-in permission, it's time to study the lessons of GDPR. General Data Protection Regulation took effect in ...

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Big Tech take note: In what looks like a meaningful — and long overdue — reforming step, the European Commission has committed to dial up its monitoring of how data protection authorities at the EU ...

One thousand four hundred and fifty-nine days have passed since data rights nonprofit NOYB fired off its first complaints under Europe’s flagship data regulation, GDPR. The complaints allege Google, ...

Amazon Road Transport was fined €2 million (U.S. $2.2 million) for trying to carry out criminal record checks on freelance truck drivers it wanted to hire without Spanish law to back up the practice.

A recent decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority against food retailer REWE International underlines the fact parent companies are ultimately responsible for how their subsidiaries manage ...