Regulatory News

The EDPB welcomes the agreed negotiation mandate adopted by the Council on the protection of privacy and confidentiality in the use of electronic communication services

The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 9 that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner issued a preliminary order that Facebook must stop transferring user data to the U.S.

On March 10th, 2021, the EDPB and EDPS adopted a joint opinion on the proposal for a Data Governance Act (DGA). The EDPB and EDPS

European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis will be the EU’s new trade commissioner and Mairead McGuinness will be the new Irish commissioner with responsibility

On February 22, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU proposed its first draft paper on the EU Data Governance Act, proposal which

On February 10th, 2021, member states agreed on a negotiating mandate for the Council on the e-privacy regulation. These updated ‘ePrivacy’ rules will define cases in

In a judgment handed down on 10 February, the Paris Commercial Court ordered Google Ireland to pay the directory assistance information operator Oxone more than

On Jan. 8, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation into whether Google’s proposals for replacing third-party cookies — through an effort Google has

The Commission has proposed on 15 December 2020 an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services,

To better exploit the potential of ever-growing data in a trustworthy European framework, the European Commission proposes on 25 November 2020 a Regulation with  new rules

The Italian data protection supervisory authority  ordered Vodafone to pay a fine in excess of Euro 12,250,000 on account of having unlawfully processed the personal