The organization behind privacy-focused browser Brave has filed a complaint against Google and other internet ad companies in Ireland and the UK for allegedly violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Brave team says that the ad companies expose user data during ‘bid requests’....
Speaking at a data privacy forum last Tuesday, head of the Economic and Trade Section of the EU Delegation in the Philippines Walter Van Hattum said that Philippine companies that handle the data of European citizens will have to be compliant to the General Data...
A study from the University Carlos III of Madrid recently established that Facebook stores sensitive personal data on around 205 million European users, which accounts for around 40% of the bloc’s population. Research authors José González Cabañas, Ángel Cuevas, and Rubén Cuevas said that this...
According to Jaspreet Singh, a partner at cybersecurity firm EY, startups are currently burning the midnight oil in preparation for EU’s new data privacy rules. The stringent rules require compliance from all businesses that handle the data of European citizens. Non-compliance will result in penalties...
Source report that WhatsApp may be working on a new data privacy option for users to be able to comply with the upcoming EU data privacy rules. WABetaInfo, a popular WhatsApp beta-testing website says that the option will likely be extended to Facebook and Instagram...
A new small-scale global survey by Commvault recently showed that only 12% of Canadian businesses may be prepared for the GDPR which will be taking effect in May this year. According to Matt Tyrer, senior manager & solutions marketing for Americas at Commvault in Ottawa, a...
A recent report by market research company Forrester found that a lot of organizations are still not ready for the EU GDPR which will be coming into force May this year. Forrester says that only a quarter of organizations across the bloc may be ready for...
At the recently held World Economic Forum in Davos, Digital Secretary Matt Hancock said that the UK is updating its laws to be able to give people more control over their data and warned British businesses to be ready for the upcoming Data Protection Bill....
It has been reported that companies are now spending millions to become compliant to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is set to take effect in May this year. Companies who do not comply to the EU law, which has a number of technically...
A tech writer from a popular tech publication recently pointed out that Google might get left behind by Amazon and Apple once the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect May next year. WIRED magazine’s Saul Klein explained that Google and Facebook’s business models are...