Sky Betting Illegally Collected Gambler’s Data, Court Rules January 23, 2025 By Daniel Zuidijk A unit of Fanduel-owner Flutter Entertainment Plc illegally collected the data of a gambling-addicted customer to profile him for marketing...
Meta’s WhatsApp Fined 5.5M Euro by Lead EU Privacy Regulator January 19, 2023 By Padraic Halpin Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros ($5.95 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead...
Firms Want U.S. to Support EU Proposals to Rein In Big Tech Platforms December 29, 2021 By Diane Bartz Critics of tech giants like Alphabet’s Google pressed Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for a January meeting after she expressed concern...
EU Prepares for Coming of Facial Recognition– On Its Privacy Terms February 3, 2020 By Natalia Drozdiak The European Union has accepted there is no escape from facial recognition, but is seeking to ensure any roll-out that...
EU Judges Face Another Major Facebook Privacy Case from Activist Schrems July 9, 2019 By Stephanie Bodoni Five years ago, when activist Max Schrems took Facebook Inc. to the European Union’s top court no one knew what...
With Just Weeks to Go for GDPR, Europe’s Regulators Say They’re Underfunded, Unprepared May 9, 2018 By Mathieu Rosemain, Julia Fioretti and Douglas Busvine FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS/PARIS— Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the...
Google Privacy Policy Violates European Law, Agencies Say March 1, 2012 Data protection agencies in European countries have concluded Google Inc.’s new privacy policy is in breach of European law, EU...