GDPR Articles

Meta Platforms has been hit with another financial penalty for infringements of the EU’s General Data [...]

The Meta-owned social media company, Instagram, has been fined €405 million ($403M) by the Irish Data [...]

Google LLC has been fined €10 million ($10.59 million) by the Spanish data protection authority – Agencia [...]

A vendor that provides software to medical analysis laboratories has been slapped with a €1.5 million [...]

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) has imposed a €565,000 penalty on the Dutch Ministry of Foreign [...]

The United States and European Union have an agreement in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy [...]

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a final decision related to an inquiry into 12 [...]

Dr. Johnny Ryan of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is suing the Irish Data Protection Commission [...]

The Belgian data protection authority (APD) has determined IAB Europe violated the GDPR with its pop-up [...]

2021 saw almost €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in financial penalties imposed for violations of the EU’s [...]

The Dutch Data Protection Authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), has announced it has imposed a [...]

The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration has violated the core principles of the EU General Data Protection [...]

A financial penalty for GDPR violations totalling €28-€36 million ($32-$42 million) is not by any means [...]

The second largest ever financial penalty to resolve GDPR violations has been imposed on WhatsApp by the [...]

The French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has [...]

Amazon.com has been slapped with a record-breaking €746 million ($888 million) GDPR penalty for allegedly [...]

Amazon is facing a $425 million financial penalty for violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation [...]

It has been 3 years since the GDPR took effect and fines for noncompliance are being issued, but most [...]

Businesses based collect or process the data of residents of the European Union are subject to the EU’s [...]

The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation of a potential data breach at Facebook [...]

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens -AP) has fined the online hotel booking [...]

Last week, the Spanish data protection authority – Agencia Española de Protección de Datos [...]

OLVG hospital Amsterdam has been fined €440,000 by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) – [...]

The number of financial penalties imposed to resolve violations of the General Data Protection Regulation [...]

Grindr, the world’s largest dating and social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, has been [...]

The online financial news and analysis portal Finbold has published a report detailing the GDPR violation [...]

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has concluded its GDPR investigation into Twitter and has [...]

Vodafone Italy has received a €12.25 million GDPR financial penalty from the Italian Data Protection [...]

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gave EU citizens new rights over their personal data. It has [...]

In July 2019, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced its intention to fine Marriott [...]

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that the General Data Protection [...]

H&M, the second largest fashion retailer in the world, has been fined €35,258,707.95 ($41.2 million) [...]

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has now been in effect for more than 2 years and while this [...]

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued a preliminary order calling for Facebook to cease [...]

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Amsterdam by the consumer privacy organization, The Privacy [...]

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has published its first GDPR evaluation [...]

The Hungarian Data Protection Authority (NAIH) has imposed a record-breaking financial penalty under the [...]

The government in Hungary has taken the controversial decision to suspend the rights of data subjects under [...]

The Data Protection Authority in the Netherlands has imposed a financial penalty of €725,000 ($791,000) on [...]

Brave Software Inc., developer of the Brave web browser, has filed a GDPR compliant with the Irish Data [...]

The Swedish Data Protection Authority has announced it has imposed a SEK 75 million fine on Google for right [...]

The Data Protection Commission in Ireland, the country’s lead GDPR regulator, has launched investigations [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s GDPR data protection authority, has issued its [...]

Currently there is no federal privacy and data protection law in the United States, only a patchwork of [...]

The German data protection authority has imposed one of the largest ever GDPR fines on a telecommunications [...]

A German real estate company, Deutsche Wohnen SE, has been issued with a €14.5 million GDPR penalty by the [...]

Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office has issued a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) GDPR penalty to an [...]

Google is alleged to have been using a ‘GDPR workaround’ to avoid the restrictions on data sharing [...]

Swedish high school has been fined €19,000 for violations of the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [...]

May 25, 2019 was the first anniversary of the compliance date of the EU’s General Data Protection [...]

The UK GDPR supervisory authority has issued the largest ever GDPR financial penalty to date. British Airways [...]

Under GDPR, businesses must ensure that any personal data of EU residents that is collected or processed is [...]

It has almost been a full year since compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has [...]

The UK government has released the results of its annual cybersecurity breach survey which shows a fall in [...]

A Harvard Business Review report has been released on the most recent massive data privacy breach involving a [...]

In a recent interview at World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about [...]

Last week, Bundeskartellamt, the German antitrust authority, determined that Facebook somewhat abuses its [...]

DLA Piper’s new report shows there have been 59,430 data breaches reported to EU regulatory authorities [...]

HITRUST has incorporated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the HITRUST Cybersecurity [...]

The goal of this GDPR To Do List is to assist organizations and businesses that gather, process or retain the [...]

Google got slapped with a penalty of €50 million Euro ($56.8 million) for a GDPR violation. This is the [...]

Is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also applicable to data of employees, just like with the [...]

The investigation of a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach by the Marriott Hotels Group revealed [...]

An Irish Data protection Commission (DPC) spokesperson recently disclosed in an interview that DPC is going [...]

Mozilla’s Senior Policy Manager and EU Principal, Raegan MacDonald, issued a statement saying that in [...]

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is looking into another potential General Data Protection [...]

Data privacy regulations have been introduced in the 50 states, although, there is no federal data privacy [...]

Google has unveiled its decision to make several changes to its terms of service and privacy policy. One of [...]

The consumer group Which? recently conducted an investigation into the issuance of e-receipts to customers. [...]

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is under investigation for potential General Data Protection [...]

The Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados (CNPD), Portugal’s GDPR supervisory authority, has [...]

According to a statement released by Marriott International, the personal information of around 500 million [...]

A new data privacy complaint against Google has been submitted by a group of EU-based consumer watchdogs. It [...]

A US Senate subcommittee disclosed that it is preparing a draft of new legislation similar to GDPR for the [...]

Instagram has issued a warning that the password details of some of its users had been exposed due to a [...]

Microsoft Office is being investigated by Dutch investigators because of claims there has been a violation of [...]

The enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU began on May 25, 2018. Companies [...]

Privacy International is a registered charity based in the UK that protects and promotes privacy rights [...]

The Radisson Hotel Group reported a potential breach that affected its loyalty and rewards scheme [...]

U.K. law firm RPC published a report that says the average penalty for security failure or data breach has [...]

A lot of Canadian businesses want to know if GDPR is applicable to Canada and Canadian businesses. Although [...]

BDO USA polled 145 U.S. corporate directors on public company boards in August 2018 about GDPR and their data [...]

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, spoke at the 40th edition of the International Conference of Data Protection and [...]

According to a recently published study conducted by the British Standards Institution (BSI), one in six [...]

Twitter is being investigated by the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in Ireland over a possible GDPR [...]

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, Google about to close down Google+ because of the [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has sent the UK’s first GDPR notice to AggregateIQ, an [...]

Facebook’s engineers discovered a serious data breach which was resolved on September 25. The data [...]

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), EU residents now enjoy new rights and [...]

Starting October 3, 2018, the Apple App Store will implement a new privacy policy rule that will require app [...]

French data regulator CNIL has warned two French data firms, Fidzup and Teemo, to adhere to the EU’s [...]

The Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford conducted a study and found that there has been a 22% [...]

Consent management platform Quantcast Choice published a recent report that revealed that European Union (EU) [...]

If EU residents can access your website, and your website is used to collect some of their personal [...]

The GDPR defines a Supervisory Authority as an independent public authority responsible for checking [...]

Healthcare companies need to issue notifications when the personal information of GDPR data subjects is [...]

Any company that collects and/or processes the personal data of EU residents needs to comply with the General [...]

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect since May 25, 2018. All companies that [...]

Healthcare companies marketing or offering their services to EU residents that involves the collection or [...]

Any company anywhere in the world that records calls from EU residents needs to follow the GDPR rules for [...]

Healthcare providers that provide services to patients from the European Union, or market their services to [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in the EU on May 25, 2018. Its purpose is to [...]

As per the GDPR, companies are obliged to protect the personal data of data subjects; however, GDPR special [...]

There is a provision in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that allows data subjects to object to [...]

Organizations that collect or process the personal data of people residing in the EU need to update their [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) generally applies to European Union citizens living in the EU. [...]

The day when the General Data Protection Regulation will be implemented is very near – May 25, 2018. [...]

Another question that has come up with the impending implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new legislation that will dictate how personal data [...]

There are still many questions that people ask regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which [...]

The GDPR will abolish and replace EU Directive 95/46/EC, which is called The Data Protection Directive. One [...]

As the GDPR will be enforced on May 5, 2018, people wonder how it compares and works in relation to other [...]

Come May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will set the pace as to how personal data [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force starting May 25, 2018. Organizations need to [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation often mentions GDPR data controllers and GDPR data processors. What is [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is a European privacy law that seeks to protect the personal [...]

Starting May 25, 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force. The GDPR [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that was agreed [...]

New European data privacy and security legislation –General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – has been [...]