Here you will find all the articles with the tag: EDPB.
The EU has held an emergency consultation on Meta's advertising policies and subscriptions. This has been scrutinized for the data collection of sensitive personal data, which is prohibited under the GDPR. The ban extends a previous decision by Norway's data protection authority. Since Norway i... Read more
6 months ago
Norway wants to impose a permanent ban on Facebook's data collection. It wants to extend this ban to the rest of Europe through the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Do the changes in Meta's ad policy still violate European laws? Norwegian watchdog Datatilsynet does not appear to be done wi... Read more
7 months ago
Italy's privacy authority deems OpenAI's response sufficient to allow it back into the Italian market. Italy's privacy regulator, the Garante dei Dati Personali ("Garante"), has agreed to remove the temporary ban it had imposed on OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, the agency has confirmed to Reuters. Th... Read more
12 months ago
Ireland's data protection authority says generative AI needs to be regulated, not banned. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Helen Dixon, has come out against issuing bans on generative AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. She instead insists that proper regulation is all that's ... Read more
12 months ago
The EC's data protection board has ordered the Irish regulator to make an order by the end of This week Reuters reported that European Union regulators have given Ireland's data regulator one month to issue an order on blocking Facebook's transatlantic data flows. Helen Dixon, Ireland's Data... Read more
1 year ago
The European Center for Digital Rights (noyb) claims the Irish authorities fined Meta only a fraction of what they should have. Noyb issued a letter to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) this week sharply criticizing the privacy agency for "letting Meta off the hook". The non-profit is r... Read more
1 year ago
The European Court of Justice has rejected WhatsApp's challenge to reverse a previous judgment. The European Court of Justice deemed WhatsApp's appeal of a decision by the European Data Protection Board to be inappropriate in a statement issued on Wednesday. In 2021, the Irish Data Protection... Read more
1 year ago
Facebook and Instagram are staying online for the foreseeable future. The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) wants to tighten the reins on Meta, but not every member state supports its case. Ireland's DPA proposed a ban on intercontinental data transfers from Meta in July, threatening to remo... Read more
2 years ago
The Irish privacy authority wants to ban data transfers between Meta and the United States. The bill can be implemented in a few months. There's a chance that Instagram and Facebook will no longer be available to European users. The Irish privacy authority shared the proposal in a letter to all ... Read more
2 years ago
National privacy authorities are calling on Europe's member states and parliament to amend the Data Act. According to the authorities, the bill risks violations of the GDPR. All European privacy authorities are part of the EDPB. The organization disagrees with the Data Act, a bill recently pres... Read more
2 years ago
