While deeming the Privacy Shield agreement an improvement upon the defunct Safe Harbor agreement, an opinion by the EU’s Article 29 Working Party admonished the ...

The European Union’s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X (formerly Twitter) breached the EU’s own data ...

TikTok has been fined €530 million ($601 million) for violating EU personal data protection rules by transferring data to China, an Irish regulator said on Friday. The Irish Data Protection Commission ...

The European Union is looking at loosening the shackles of its strict regulations around privacy to boost the development of artificial intelligence, according to documents obtained by Politico. The ...

The court set a high bar for businesses to prove abuse of data protection safeguards — like customer requests made only for ...

This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

Back in March, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 was found to have broken the bloc’s data protection rules. Since then, we haven’t heard much about this awkward situation. But Monday was ...

The EDPB is an independent European legal body responsible for ensuring consistent application of EU data protection rules, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as the Data ...

On September 3, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) put months of uncertainty to rest by upholding the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Protection ...