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.
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.
The European Commission must urgently reassess Israel's data protection adequacy status, European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 15 other civil rights groups said in a Tuesday letter to Michael McGrath, EU commissioner for democracy, justice, rule of law and consumer protection. Neither the EC nor the Israeli government commented immediately.
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EU governments and lawmakers agreed provisionally on a law meant to streamline and harmonize General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) cross-border enforcement processes among national data protection authorities (DPAs), said the Council and the European Parliament on Monday. They also agreed on an early resolution mechanism.
The controversial U.K. Data Use (and Access) Bill (DUA), which cleared Parliament Wednesday night and awaits Royal Assent before becoming law, continues to spark concerns about whether its divergences from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU laws will adequately protect Europeans' personal data. Moreover, passage of the bill could prompt the European Commission to deny adequacy status to Britain's data-protection regime, privacy attorneys and civil society groups said.
Ireland's Department of Social Protection (DSP) breached the General Data Protection Regulation when it collected biometric data in connection with registrations needed on applications to obtain a public services card, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced Thursday.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Advertisers and regulators are considering the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to balance business interests with protecting consumers’ privacy, panel members said Monday during the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference. But whether PETs, which include differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, are up to the task is unclear, panelists said.