The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is planning to relax some enforcement of consent requirements for companies that stop using intrusive tracking technologies, it said Monday (see 2504280042).
Cookies on websites that measure audience or performance statistics may be exempt from consent requirements under certain conditions, French data protection agency CNIL said July 4 as part of an advisory.
The EU AI Act will not be postponed, Thomas Regnier, a European Commission spokesperson, posted July 4 on LinkedIn. "Legal deadlines are legal deadlines," he said.
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.