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
French watchdog fines Microsoft €60 million over cookies
French data protection authority CNIL has penalized Microsoft €60 million ($64 million) for forcing adverti...
Elon Musk says he’ll “resign as CEO” of Twitter
Elon Musk announced his intention to retire as CEO of Twitter in a tweet on Tuesday after a vote suggested mo...
Amazon settles major EU antitrust cases
Amazon has concluded two European Commission antitrust probes into its e-commerce marketplace. The news w...
British bank TSB to pay €56 million fine over mishandled IT migration
UK authorities fined British lender TSB £49 million (€56 million) for a botched IT platform upgrade that s...
ChatGPT’s breakthrough raises alarm over AI use in education
The recent breakthrough of artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has raised the alarm among educators, who wor...
European Commission accuses Meta of abuse of power
The European Commission alleges that Meta is abusing Facebook's popularity to gain customers for Facebook Mar...
‘Germany increasingly relies on Huawei for 5G despite security fears’
A survey suggests that Germany has become more dependent on Huawei for its 5G radio access network equipment ...
Spain urges EU regulators to update telecom rules
Spain's economy minister has spoken in favour of consolidating the telecom market as regulators investigate t...
Microsoft to deploy ‘data boundary’ for EU users in January
Microsoft announced that cloud customers will be able to limit the tech giant's data processing and storage t...
G20 countries want to steer cryptocurrency regulation
The G20 wants to establish common ground for cryptocurrency regulation. More and more governments seek ways t...