GDPR in the EU went into effect in 2018. Here's what we've learned from $1.72 billion in fines. European Union regulators have issued about $1.72 billion in fines for violations of the EU’s General ...

On Jan. 21, French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) imposed a fine of $57 million on Google, Inc. for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was enacted on May 25, 2018.

In the five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force, what have been the main learnings for business, and what will the future hold? On 25 May 2023, the ...

Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive ...

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Now that the deadline has passed and inboxes are no longer stuffed with requests for opt-in permission, it's time to study the lessons of GDPR. General Data Protection Regulation took effect in ...

California's new consumer privacy law, the CCPA, took effect on January 1, 2020. While enforcement didn't kick in until July 1, a recent survey by PossibleNow, a consent solutions provider, found that ...

All eyes may be on Hong Kong right now and its use of facial recognition to identify protesters, but a far more enlightening case — for those fortunate to have less antagonistic relationships with ...

A recent decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority against food retailer REWE International underlines the fact parent companies are ultimately responsible for how their subsidiaries manage ...

Amazon Road Transport was fined €2 million (U.S. $2.2 million) for trying to carry out criminal record checks on freelance truck drivers it wanted to hire without Spanish law to back up the practice.