European regulators want to make it easier to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially for micro-, small- and medium-sized organizations, the European Data Protection Board said Thursday. It issued a statement about how enhanced clarity, support and engagement will help attain that goal after a high-level meeting in Helsinki July 1-2.
Data-protection complaints increased 30% in the first half of 2025 over last year, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) reported Tuesday.
Some German federal websites are breaching privacy laws by embedding YouTube videos in their pages, the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) said Monday.
The Danish EU presidency, whose six-month term began Tuesday, "will be a springboard for several consequential initiatives for digital responsibility professionals," IAPP Managing Director Europe Isabelle Roccia said in a statement.
Swedish Prime Minister and Moderate Party Leader Ulf Kristersson raised the issue of pausing the implementation of the EU AI Act at last week's European Council meeting in Brussels, his office told us Monday (see 2506250003).
Online dating platform Bumble's "AI Icebreakers" app allows OpenAI to access users' personal profile data without consent and send it to feed OpenAI's AI systems, Austrian privacy rights organization Noyb alleged Thursday.
Google and Apple should block chatbot DeepSeek from their platforms because it's illegally transferring user data to China, Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Meike Kamp said Friday.
Austrian privacy rights organization Noyb will challenge the Belgian Data Protection Authority's (ODA) decision to toss 16 complaints in five cases that Noyb filed, founder Max Schrems told Privacy Daily on Friday.
French data protection authority CNIL and consortium partners Thursday launched the Privacy Auditing of AI Models project to develop a tool that will assess models' privacy.
Italian privacy watchdog Garante fined Autostrade per l'Iitalia 420,000 euros ($492,000) for misusing an employee's personal data to justify her firing.