With targeted political advertising in Europe now governed by new rules that complement the GDPR, French watchdog CNIL published practical guides Tuesday to make sure that data processing done in the course of political communications is privacy-compliant.
The European Parliament voted 533-43 to back rules to speed up cross-border GDPR enforcement, it announced Tuesday.
The job applicant at the center of a German GDPR case decided in June was seeking an administrative position at the law school (see 2510100030).
French DPA CNIL will host a GDPR Day on Dec. 9 in Nantes, it announced Monday. Aimed at professionals, academics and students, the event will focus on updates in data protection, tools for data protection officers, CNIL audits and cybersecurity.
The U.K. government is getting its data protection house in order, Information Commissioner John Edwards said in a statement Monday as authorities released an 11-point information security and privacy plan.
Consent-or-pay advertising models can comply with data protection law if companies can show that people are freely agreeing to have their information used for personalized ads, the U.K. ICO said in guidance issued Monday.
The U.K. Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday released Google from commitments it made in February 2022 regarding its Privacy Sandbox on the grounds that there are no longer any competition concerns.
With companies increasingly using their customers' personal data to train AI models, French DPA CNIL Thursday detailed how people can object to that reuse.
The Irish DPC and media regulator Coimisiun na Mean will work together to keep children safe and protect their personal data online, they announced Thursday.
Nearly one-third of French people in a 2024 survey said they have been confronted on social media with content from people who have died, and half said they would prefer that data on social networks be deleted after their death, French DPA CNIL said Wednesday.