European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in 2019, after a majority of EU data supervisors agreed to back ...

Editors’ Note: This is the sixth in our fourth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed the CCPA, energy, ...

The global chaos created by COVID-19 has proven to be a stress test for modern governance. The pandemic and its fallout have proven especially revealing in the context of European data policy, which ...

A new report by European consumer protection umbrella group Beuc, reflecting on the barriers to effective cross-border enforcement of the EU’s flagship data protection framework, makes awkward reading ...

The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect since May 2018. The law’s goal of protecting EU citizens’ personal information and privacy seems to be coming ...

“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping Tom to install your window blinds” – John Perry Barlow, EFF (July 1992). Any individual who has the slightest engagement in ...

Poor funding of national data protection authorities across Europe leaves large companies able to circumvent the rules, a new report has warned. On the second anniversary of the EU’s general data ...

It's been a year and nearly eight months since the EU's data privacy law, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), came into force and 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines have been imposed ...

After more than two years, GDPR enforcement trends are beginning to emerge. We are seeing the types of enforcement actions that data protection authorities (DPAs) across the European Union (EU) are ...

U.S. civil litigants faced with an obligation to produce "personal data" protected by GDPR, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, can find themselves on the horns of a serious ...