The court set a high bar for businesses to prove abuse of data protection safeguards — like customer requests made only for profit rather than to understand data — while keeping liability for wrongful ...

In May 2018, the European Union (EU) implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a major component of EU privacy law. Privacy regulations like the GDPR ...

The 'large-scale inquiry' relates to potential breaches of the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation, said Ireland's Data Protection Commission on Tuesday. The move comes despite repeated US ...

Data privacy technologies help organizations protect sensitive information while balancing innovation, regulation and user trust.

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

Among the limitations of the study, the authors note that it does not analyze potential long-term effects of the regulation. Also, the study does not focus on the role of variable degrees of privacy ...

On 21 March 2025, the New Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Parties came into effect, superseding and repealing the prior data protection law. The new law ...