The Spanish Data Protection Agency will work toward proactive, people-centered data protection adapted to emerging technological challenges over the next five years, it said Thursday.
The number of data thefts by cybercriminals nearly doubled in 2024 and organizational countermeasures, though improved, remain worryingly vulnerable, the Dutch Data Protection Authority reported Thursday in an annual overview of cyber activity in the Netherlands.
Using an AI-created image doesn't necessarily involve personal data processing, the Latvian data protection authority said Thursday.
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.