The growing use of voice recognition technologies in the public and private sectors is prompting data protection and regulatory concerns, an advisory body, the U.K. Biometrics & Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), and a privacy consultant said.
Europe's public interest and digital sectors dueled over the European Commission's plans to reduce regulatory burdens, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in documents published Tuesday.
The EU General Court ruling upholding the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework "is not the end of the story," IAPP Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy said Thursday during a webinar. Wednesday's decision can and likely will be appealed, said data protection lawyers, adding that the ruling has implications for frameworks beyond the EU.
Google and Shein breached EU cookie rules, French data protection authority CNIL announced Wednesday, issuing fines of 325 million euros ($379 million) and 150 million euros ($175 million), respectively.
The EU General Court threw out a challenge to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) on Wednesday, confirming that the U.S. adequately protects Europeans' personal data and that trans-Atlantic data flows can continue.
Regulation doesn't block Europe from leading in AI innovation, but fragmentation in areas such as employment and the capital markets makes it harder to scale up, EU AI Office Director Lucilla Sioli said Thursday on a Center for Strategic & International Studies webinar.
The EU Data Act, which takes effect Sept. 12, is awash with uncertainties that will likely spark challenges from consumer and plaintiff lawyers and impel data protection authorities (DPAs) to "become active very early on," Latham & Watkins data, cyber and tech lawyer Tim Wybitul told Privacy Daily this week.
The Polish Data Protection Authority slammed ING Bank Slaski on Tuesday with a $5 million fine (18,416,400 Polish zloty) for excessive and unjustified scanning of customer ID documents.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and data protection attorneys are looking to advise companies on key changes to the U.K.'s privacy landscape as a result of the U.K. Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA), in effect as of Wednesday.
Femtech offers groundbreaking innovations in women's health but also poses serious privacy threats, data protection lawyers said. Even the EU, with its General Data Protection Regulation and AI Act, and the U.K., with its version of the GDPR, may not always provide adequate protection for the highly sensitive personal data that femtech apps collect and use, they added.