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
The EU’s top court rules phone data cannot be held ‘indiscriminately’
The European Union's highest court concluded that governments cannot hold phone data broadly and indiscrimina...
EU’s AI Act can order the destruction or retraining of AI models
According to a legal expert's examination of the proposal, the European Union's planned risk-based framework ...
Two out of three U.S. websites violate the EU data protection law
A study shows that 67% of U.S. websites fail to comply with Europe's GDPR. A new study announced by PYMTS ...
European Commission renews 20 year old antitrust rules
The European Commission is revamping the rules that combat cartels and monopolism. In the coming months, t...
EU’s Vestager says the cloud computing sector doesn’t raise antitrust alarms yet
Europe's Gaia-X program balances the cloud computing market. Amazon and Microsoft dominate the cloud market...
Apple bends to ACM’s demands after €50 million fine
Dutch market regulator ACM is positive about the adjustments Apple proposes for dating app developers. When a...
Google schedules trials for FLEDGE and Topics APIs
The tech giant has declared its intent to experiment in its "Privacy Sandbox". Google is preparing another...
Judge forces Microsoft to lift OneDrive ban
The Court of Rotterdam is requiring Microsoft to unblock a OneDrive user after an alleged violation. The u...
Collective accusing Oracle and Salesforce of privacy violations to appeal
The Privacy Collective will appeal the dismissal of a claim alleging mass privacy violations by Oracle and Sa...
EU-US data transfers will soon be legal, new Privacy Shield under way
The United States and European Union agree on a new framework for legal data transfers between the EU and US....