Privacy & Compliance
There is a lot going on around privacy and compliance, especially in Europe. This in itself is a good thing, because data should be adequately protected, especially if it concerns personal data. In practice, however, it turns out to be quite disappointing how well organizations do this. We read and write a lot about data breaches. Over the years there seem to be more rather than fewer of them. Is that because organizations don’t want to do better or can’t do better? Whatever the reason, a good policy on privacy and compliance is indispensable in the current era. Especially with all kinds of new legislation that has been introduced and is coming, the need to put this high on the agenda is only increasing.
Timeline
Arm recruits staff from customers to make its own chips
Arm is recruiting staff from its own customers and it is competing with them to win deals as the company work...
OpenAI refuses Musk bid of nearly $100 billion
OpenAI is not accepting a possible nearly $100 billion bid that Elon Musk and other investors have made for t...
Apple under pressure: UK demands access to encrypted user data
Apple has reportedly been ordered by the British government to create a backdoor that lets security services ...
WordPress chief silences creator Yoast SEO plugin
Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, posted a statement on X reporting that Joost de Valk would no longer...
Ex-ASML employee sent data to Russian foreign intelligence
A detained ex-employee of both chip machine builder ASML and chipmaker NXP is said to have ties to the Russia...
Dutch regulator warns of privacy risks DeepSeek, launches investigation
The Dutch data protection authority AP is expressing serious concerns about the privacy policies of Chinese t...
Italy blocks Chinese DeepSeek over privacy concerns
Italian privacy regulator Garante has blocked Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek because of insufficient informati...
Cloud dominance Microsoft and Amazon under closer scrutiny
The British competition authority CMA has made a preliminary finding that competition in the cloud services s...
Privacy budgets shrink in 2025
54 percent of European privacy professionals expect their budget will be cut in the coming year. Confidence t...
Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI on regulator’s radar
The US stock market watchdog FTC is investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI. The reason is concern ...