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.
Pension scheme support company Capita's failure to process personal data securely or effectively respond to a cyberattack earned it a fine of 14 million pounds ($18.7 million) from the U.K. ICO, the watchdog announced Wednesday. The fine was part of an agreed settlement in which Capita admitted liability and declined to appeal.
European DPAs will focus their next coordinated enforcement action on compliance with the GDPR's transparency and information requirements, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced Tuesday. The push will launch in 2026.
European privacy professionals remain concerned President Donald Trump could nullify the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) by reversing former President Joe Biden’s executive order establishing the DPF, said Austrian activist and privacy attorney Max Schrems on Tuesday.
There’s no substitute for openness, clear communication and specificity where privacy regulation is concerned, Orrick lawyer Christian Schroder wrote, as was demonstrated by rulings in Germany in June involving GDPR regulations. In addition, the rulings showed that an organization gathering data from public sources about a job candidate could put it out of compliance, though that might not force the hiring of a wronged candidate, Schroder said in a blog post this week.
Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google must provide information on their age certification systems and how they prevent items such as vapes from being sold to kids, the European Commission said Friday as it launched investigations under the Digital Services Act.
France's law clearly defines what documents landlords can request from people seeking rental property, French privacy watchdog CNIL said Friday.
As part of an effort to facilitate GDPR compliance and bolster consistency, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission issued their first joint guidelines Thursday, emphasizing areas of agreement between GDPR and the Digital Markets Act (DMA).