In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes ...

General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. Read now Regulators in Ireland have proposed up to $42 million in fines for ...

Two of the largest social media platforms have asked that the Australian government consider implementing many of the elements present in Europe's General Data ...

Facebook's parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275 million) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection ...

A data leak of information on approximately 533 million Facebook users – including profile names, mobile numbers and location data – has prompted talk of regulatory action against the social media ...

Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in the European Union is inching toward making its first decision on a complaint against Facebook itself. And it looks ...

A formal investigation will aim to establish whether Facebook's handling of the leak constitutes a breach of the GDPR. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission today released its annual report, which disclosed that it has launched 21 investigations for GDPR violations, including eight involving Facebook. The 2019 DPC ...

The omnipresent blue-hand is a familiar sight upon even the most cursory of glances around the internet, leaving the door open to web managers being collared by national privacy regulators as being ...

European and Irish regulators have ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay a fine of 1.2 billion euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with transfers of personal data to the ...

In the blink of an eye, the third-party data landscape has dramatically shifted under the feet of marketers. For many, now is a time of turmoil, uncertainty and loss of support that was previously ...