The U.K. government has no plans to ban virtual private networks (VPNs) despite a surge in users downloading them to circumvent age verification and estimation rules under the Online Safety Act (OSA), a government spokesperson said.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Friday it identified the two companies and dataset at the heart of a scandal involving the sale of smartphone location data and is investigating. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) accused the DPA of failing to act on its earlier whistleblowing complaint.
The EU Council agreed Wednesday on its negotiating stance on several European Commission proposals, including one extending red-tape reduction rules to mid-cap enterprises, a move that will amend the GDPR.
While consent is a critical component of digital privacy, it's also "one of the most misunderstood," Scott Loughlin, a Hogan Lovells data protection lawyer, said in a video the firm posted Thursday.
While both the EU and U.K. use legitimate interest as a basis for processing personal data, the U.K. Data Use and Access Act (DUAA) has introduced "something interesting" -- a more flexible standard that can reduce administrative burden in some cases, said Daniel Vinerean, managing director of law firm David and Baias, during a webinar Thursday.
Kmart Australia violated customers' privacy by indiscriminately collecting their personal and sensitive data with facial recognition technology (FRT) in an operation designed to tackle refund fraud, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind announced Thursday.
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.