Uber Technologies Inc. was hit by a record €290 million ($324 million) fine by the Dutch privacy watchdog for failing to abide by European protection standards when it shipped swathes of sensitive data about its drivers to the US. The …
A landmark European privacy law is making waves worldwide a year after it came into force, fundamentally changing the way data are handled as Facebook, Apple and Google face increasingly frequent complaints. Adopted on May 25 last year, the General …
Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), said on Friday it was investigating the company for a breach notification received from the social networking site. “The DPC has this week opened a new statutory …
France’s data protection watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google 50 million euros ($57 million) on Monday [Jan. 21] for breaching European Union online privacy rules, the biggest such penalty levied against a U.S. tech giant. The French regulator said the world’s biggest …
Aon plc has launched a risk management solution designed to help organizations prepare for a new data protection law due to come into force on May 25, 2018. The law, known as the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, …
Data protection agencies in European countries have concluded Google Inc.’s new privacy policy is in breach of European law, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said on Thursday. France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has also cast doubt on the legality …
A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc. calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users’ personal data. Google said in January it …
The European Union will propose tough new rules in the coming days on how corporations handle Internet users’ personal data, a long-awaited move that could have far-reaching implications for Web giants such as Google Inc. and Facebook. Viviane Reding, vice …
