While deeming the Privacy Shield agreement an improvement upon the defunct Safe Harbor agreement, an opinion by the EU’s Article 29 Working Party admonished the ...

European Union data-protection reform proposals could undermine basic privacy rights globally, a growing chorus of critics say. More than 60 civil rights groups from all corners of the world including ...

On September 3, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) put months of uncertainty to rest by upholding the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Protection ...

This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to ...

The European Union’s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X (formerly Twitter) breached the EU’s own data ...

Back in March, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 was found to have broken the bloc’s data protection rules. Since then, we haven’t heard much about this awkward situation. But Monday was ...

The European Union is looking at loosening the shackles of its strict regulations around privacy to boost the development of artificial intelligence, according to documents obtained by Politico. The ...

The European Commission, the regulatory body of the European Union that frequently launches investigations of major tech companies, including Microsoft, now finds itself on the other side of this ...

The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is the first major piece of data protection legislation since the UK left the European Union (EU) four years ago. Instead of completely ...

The EDPB is an independent European legal body responsible for ensuring consistent application of EU data protection rules, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as the Data ...

Data protection is under political pressure. Prof. Tobias Keber explains in an interview why it is necessary for freedom, ...