European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, up 168% on 2021, with Meta the hardest hit. According to the latest GDPR and Data Breach Survey from international law firm ...

Following the European Court of Justice’s (“ECJ”) landmark judgement of 5 December 2023 (case no. C-807/21), the Higher Regional Court of Berlin specified the requirements for GDPR fine notices issued ...

The passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made it clear that the European Union (EU) is extremely serious about consumer privacy and that protecting EU citizens’ personal ...

It’s been a little over five years since the GDPR came into effect and fines keep amassing — especially for social media platforms. New research by Dutch VPN company Surfshark has found that, since ...

Over the last five years of GDPR, the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Whatsapp, and X, formerly Twitter) were fined over €2.9B for GDPR breaches, of which €765M was ...

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the European Union implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most far-reaching data privacy protection law at the time.

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed ...

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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp 225 million euros ($266 million) after finding that it violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation by failing to disclose to users how ...

GDPR turned five this week — and celebrated in customary style: by slapping Meta with another eye-watering fine. At a record-breaking €1.2bn, the punishment was the perfect self-gift for the EU ...

As how-to editor, Jason unpacks modern technology to help you make sense of it and put it to work in your daily life. (Credit: Emilija Manevska/Getty Images) Do you like being followed everywhere you ...

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