European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski is worried about what's going on in the U.S. and its potential effect on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), he said Wednesday at a streamed Brussels briefing on the EDPS' 2024 annual report.
A U.K. announcement regarding the upcoming GOV.UK wallet “sent shockwaves through the sector,” digital verification companies said in a Tuesday letter to Peter Kyle, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.
The U.K. Office of Communications (Ofcom) on Tuesday banned the leasing of special types of phone numbers called "Global Titles," which could jeopardize the privacy and security of mobile phone users, it said.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) is exploring the use of emotion-recognition AI in society for an upcoming report on AI and algorithmic risks, it said Friday. The report will consider trends and developments in using algorithms and emotion-recognition AI in the Netherlands, it said.
A plan aimed at boosting cross-border cooperation in enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could end up making things worse, Austrian privacy advocacy group Noyb warned Thursday.
France's privacy authority CNIL and its Treasury said it will host an in-person and online discussion about the economic impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Poland's data retention regime violates the General Data Protection Regulation, Polish digital activists said Wednesday. To challenge the regime, members of Panoptykon Foundation, part of the European Digital Rights organization, said they'll ask the four largest telcos to delete activists' personal data stored for law enforcement purposes in the prior year.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced Wednesday that it fined DPP Law Ltd $80,000 (£60,000) after a cyberattack resulted in highly sensitive and confidential personal information being published on the dark web.
The Dutch business sector isn't prepared to use algorithms that process personal data, the country's data protection agency (AP) said Wednesday.
Meta will train its AI models using photos and posts from Facebook and Instagram users in the European Economic Area starting at the end of May, the Norwegian data protection authority warned Tuesday. It provided information about the training and what people can do about it.