Although Google has postponed the phaseout of third-party cookies to 2023, many in the advertising world still wonder how a cookieless era will affect the industry. Criticisms surrounding Google’s ...

Europe’s data protection regulators issued over €1bn ($1.1bn) in GDPR fines since January 2021, a massive 594% year-on-year increase, according to international law firm DLA Piper. The firm’s annual ...

Grindr, a hook-up app for gay, bi, trans and queer people, has been fined around $7.1 million (65 million NOK) by Norway’s data protection authority for passing user data to advertisers without ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

The Package proposes two amendments to clarify the concept of "personal data" under the GDPR (references to the "Amended GDPR" relate to the GDPR as it would be amended under the proposals set out in ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), through Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued another fine against a large US technology company. What may ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

Data protection authorities in Europe are to come under closer scrutiny over the way they're enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Following a complaint, the European Commission has ...

The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the EU on May 25, 2018, was a landmark occasion – with the legislation replacing often disjointed and outdated data protection ...