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The German university town of Tübingen in Baden-Wurttemberg is facing investigation for a potential violation of the European Union’s General Data Protection…
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The German university town of Tübingen in Baden-Wurttemberg is facing investigation for a potential violation of the European Union’s General Data Protection…
The European Union executive proposed rolling back key artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy rules as part of a push to slash red tape and help Europe's…
Austria's data protection authority said Friday that it has ordered YouTube to comply with EU regulations and respond to requests by users for access to data that…
US tech giant Microsoft presented new plans promising to improve the European cloud customers' data protection.
The EU's promised "cutting of red tape" and simplification of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for business actually only offered "cosmetic fixes" and "minor…
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on May 2 over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to…
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has said it would use interactions that users have with its AI, as well as public posts and comments shared by adults across its platforms,…
In a case brought against US social network X in Germany, a regional court has decided to remove a judge from the proceedings in Berlin.
Chinese artificial intelligence company Deepseek may face more actions from national regulators in the future, Europe's privacy watchdog has said.
French authorities are reported to be concerned about "the potential risks associated with the use of US-based solutions" for handling European Union digital data.
Netflix has been hit with a €4.75 million fine by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) for breaking the European Union's GDPR privacy rules.
The European Commission has lost a case before the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), which ruled that the the EC had "illegally targeted advertisements…
In a letter obtained by Brussels Signal, French MP Philippe Latombe has urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to suspend the US-European Union…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Uber €290 million for transferring personal data of European taxi drivers to the US without ensuring data protection…
Social media platform X has slammed an Irish request for it to stop processing user data for its Grok AI as "draconian", according to national broadcaster RTE.
Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is taking the Twitter International Unlimited Company to the country's High Court over its "Grok" artificial intelligence,…
The European Commission has once again been accused of breaking its own data-protection rules.
The European Commission claimed it did not intend to break European Union law with a recent highly controversial advertisement campaign on X.
Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc's privacy…
French regulator Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) fined Amazon France Logistique €32 million for what the CNIL said was an "excessively…
The European Union's data protection watchdog has demanded Facebook and Instagram owner Meta be banned from processing user data for “behavioural advertising”.
The European data regulator has agreed to extend a ban imposed by non-EU member Norway on "behavioural advertising" on Facebook and Instagram to cover all 30 countries…
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will charge EU users who want to avail of the bloc's data protection benefits, it says.
New EU powers over bank accounts could be abused, privacy advocates warn.
The European privacy regulator has handed a record-breaking €1.2 billion fine to Meta, formerly Facebook.