Cyprus, which assumes the EU Presidency Thursday for a six-month term, said its priorities include regulatory simplification via the European Commission's proposed omnibus packages and cutting red tape. The EC's digital omnibus, published Nov. 19, includes tweaks to the GDPR, which have stirred controversy (see 2511190005).
Online directories that allow ratings and reviews of professionals such as doctors and lawyers must have safeguards in place to protect their rights and reputations, French watchdog CNIL said Monday.
French DPA CNIL fined computer systems and software designer Nexpublica France 1.7 million euros ($2 million) for failure to build sufficient security measures into a software package that resulted in data breaches, it said Wednesday.
Given the rise in significant cyber incidents caused by complex digital service supply chains, the U.K. government's new Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill is welcome but needs more clarity, the ICO said Tuesday.
French watchdog CNIL, which has a new role in regulating data sharing and use under the EU Data Act, set out rules of the road Monday.
The Official Journal of the EU Monday published the grounds for French Member of Parliament Philippe Latombe's appeal of an EU General Court ruling tossing his challenge to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
The European Commission renewed its two decisions allowing personal data flows between the EU and the U.K., it said Friday. It found that Britain's data protection legal framework is essentially equivalent to the EU's.
French watchdog CNIL Thursday published a tool for tracking open-source AI models to help data subjects exercise their rights to access personal information, object to its use for AI and delete it.
The ICO and its counterparts in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are jointly probing a cyber incident that compromised data of the trade union Prospect Custodian Trustees in June, they said Thursday.
Italian DPA Garante fined Verisure Italy and Aimaq hundreds of thousands of euros for serious data protection violations, it said Thursday.