General Data Protection Regulation
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Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog’s annual report
The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another…
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Europe sets out plan to boost data reuse and regulate ‘high risk’ AIs
European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc, one…
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CCPA won’t be enough to fix tech’s data entitlement problem
Fredrick Lee Contributor Fredrick “Flee” Lee is chief information security officer at Gusto, the people platform for 100,000 small businesses…
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Tinder’s handling of user data is now under GDPR probe in Europe
Dating app Tinder is the latest tech service to find itself under formal investigation in Europe over how it handles…
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Google’s location tracking finally under formal probe in Europe
Google’s lead data regulator in Europe has finally opened a formal investigation into the tech giant’s processing of location data…
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UK Council websites are letting citizens be profiled for ads, study shows
On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a…
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Adtech told to keep calm and fix its ‘lawfulness’ problem
Six months after warning that the real-time bidding (RTB) component of programmatic online advertising is wildly out of control —…
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‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data
The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of…
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Europe’s top data protection regulator, Giovanni Buttarelli, has died
Europe’s data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, has died. His passing yesterday, aged 62, was announced by his office today —…
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