The European Commission is reportedly urging the US to create a federal privacy law to improve the protections of Europeans whenever their data is transferred abroad. The advice was included in the second annual review of the U.S.-European Privacy Shield, a framework where 3,858 U.S. companies...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office recently announced that it had appointed its in-house expert Dr Ruben Binns as its first Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Binns will take the lead in researching the effects of artificial intelligence on privacy. He will also help...
The European Commission told governments this week not to misuse the GDPR to silence journalists after hearing of related incidents in Romania and Hungary. It was revealed that Romania’s Rise Project had been threatened last week by the country’s data authority ANSPDCP to reveal its...
Secretary of the Children’s Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety, John Carr, wrote last week to the European Commission and asked that its newly introduced data laws be amended so that investigators can report and take down indecent images such as those that depict child sexual...
The European Commission launched last September 5 the procedure for the adoption of its adequacy decision on its data transfer deal with Japan. It was announced in a press release that Commissioner Jourová had already briefed the College on the next steps, and the Commission...
Sources have revealed this week that the European Commission has created a draft amendment that seeks to penalize political organizations that use personal data for strategic gains. While the fine may only be set around 5% of the political party’s yearly budget, this will be on...
The European Commission revealed this week that the EU-US Privacy Shield will be suspended from September 1 if the Trump administration is unable to fully comply with the terms of the agreement. The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee had already approved a resolution calling for the...
European Commission's vice president for digital issues Andrus Ansip remarked this week that while he believed that Facebook is ready to meet the requirements of the GDPR, it will still have to be seen if the company is able to fulfil its promises in real...
Last Friday, the European Commission confirmed that the data of around 2.7 million European users had been misused in the privacy scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. This is according to the letter sent to them by the US social network, who also clarified this week...