Adtech giant Criteo faces $65M fine in France for GDPR consent breaches
In the latest blow to the creepy ‘tracking-ads’ complex, French adtech giant Criteo has been found in breach of European Union data...
Read moreIn the latest blow to the creepy ‘tracking-ads’ complex, French adtech giant Criteo has been found in breach of European Union data...
Read moreResearch examining default settings and terms & conditions offered to minors by social media giants TikTok, WhatsApp and Instagram across 14...
Read moreTikTok’s attempt to switch legal basis for targeting advertising at users in Europe looks to be in trouble after Italy’s data protection watchdog...
Read moreThe wheels of privacy enforcement are slowly turning against Facebook in Europe — where its lead data protection regulator, Ireland’s...
Read moreWhatsApp has been warned by European regulators it has one more month to fix its confusing terms of service, the Commission said today. The...
Read moreIn an effort to make its notoriously dense user agreements less labyrinthine, Meta has rewritten and redesigned how that information is presented....
Read moreThe UK’s data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for the controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI — announcing a...
Read moreHere’s a rare sight: Google has been hit with a €10 million fine by Spain for serious breaches of the European Union’s General Data...
Read moreNew data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system’s use of web users’ info for tracking and ad targeting, released today by the Irish...
Read moreA company that gained notoriety for selling access to billions of facial photos, many culled from social media without the knowledge of the...
Read moreA ruling by the European Union’s top court today is set to unblock a raft of litigation brought by consumer protection organizations seeking to...
Read moreWith Facebook, Twitter and Instagram banned by the Kremlin, TikTok is the last global social media platform still operating in Russia. In response to...
Read morePrivacy watchdogs in Europe are considering a complaint against Apple made by a former employee, Ashley Gjøvik, who alleges the company fired her...
Read moreThe political agreement reached late last month between the European Union and the US administration on a new transatlantic data transfers pact which...
Read moreThe European Union has just announced reaching an agreement in principle with the US on a revived transatlantic data flows deal — potentially...
Read moreCity of London police say those arrested are between the ages of 16 and 21.
Read moreGoogle has signalled it’s dialling up efforts around portability, announcing a plan yesterday to spend $3 million and “hundreds of...
Read moreA UK High Court judge has granted permission for a class-action style privacy lawsuit to proceed against TikTok over its handling of children’s...
Read moreAgreeing a new data transfer agreement with the US is a “high priority” for the EU, Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s executive VP for...
Read moreNick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the U.K., has been elevated to new heights at Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook —...
Read moreMeta’s external advisory organization issued new recommendations Tuesday, urging the company to bolster its policies that protect users against...
Read moreWhile the pandemic accelerated the ability to live our lives largely online, around 4 billion people remain “digitally invisible” because their...
Read moreA piece of compliance theatre that the behavioral ad industry has for years passed off as “a cross-industry best practice standard”...
Read moreRemember the backlash over that impossible-to-understand privacy policy update pushed out by WhatsApp last year? A consumer protection complaint...
Read moreWashington, DC, Texas, Washington state and Indiana announced the latest lawsuit against Big Tech Monday, alleging that Google deceived users by...
Read moreAs the legal uncertainty in Europe clouding use of US cloud services cranks up, Google has responded by firing up its lobbying engines to call for US...
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Read moreIreland’s embattled data protection regulator, the DPC, has announced the submission of a draft decision sent to other EU DPAs Friday in...
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