With Facebook investigating how a software flaw exposed the accounts of some 50 million of its users, European regulators are already asking for answers and gearing up for possible legal action ...

The UK’s data protection regulator has made scores of urgent recommendations to the Department for Education (DfE) after an audit revealed it is failing to meet legal obligations enshrined in the GDPR ...

On 26 July 2022, the Lower Saxony data protection authority ("Lower Saxony DPA") announced that it has imposed a fine of 1.1 million euros on Volkswagen ("VW") due to GDPR violations. It found that VW ...

Real-Time Bidding would appear to be guilty as charged. That seems to the takeaway from yesterday's closed-door session at the ICO. It was supposed to have been under Charter House Rules, meaning that ...

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Personal data breach reports rose 22% year-over-year in 2025 Ireland has issued some of the GDPR's biggest fines, including 2025's biggest Geopolitical tensions, new tech and new laws are all to blame ...

Google will not make FLoC-based cohorts available for testing in countries where GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive are in effect. In other words, no FLoCs in Europe. At ...

British Airways could face fines under GDPR for the data breach it reported last week. It depends on whether the airline had measures in place to forestall such an attack.

Amazon reportedly faces a fine of more than $425 million under the GDPR that would show EU regulators firmly have Big Tech companies—and their practices—in their crosshairs.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) significantly expanded the territorial scope of EU data protection law. This was intended to ensure comprehensive protection for EU data subjects’ rights ...