Understanding the territorial scope of the GDPR
Companies outside the European Union now have some much-needed guidance on the territorial scope of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation to determine whether they are directly subject to the …
Nearly 65% Of Indian Companies Ready For GDPR Compliance: Cisco
India is the sixth leading country in the GDPR readiness index Any companies that are processing data of people from the EU will have to comply with the GDPR The …
Google GDPR Complaint Suggests Personal Data Misuse
A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint shows that Google may have misused people’s personal data and categorized them in highly sensitive ways, according to reports. Google’s ad technology apparently labels …
GDPR complaints say Amazon, Spotify, and other streaming companies are breaking EU law
A series of complaints brought under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), filed by an Austrian privacy activist, accuse eight major streaming companies of failing to comply with European Union law. GDPR, …
Box Helps Firms Tackle Brexit And GDPR With Local UK Data Zone
The company will be using two data redundant data centres to deliver improved data management and data sovereignty to companies as they prepare for Brexit and its potential effect on …
Google must pay €50 million for GDPR violations, France says
CNIL agrees with complaints brought by activists: user consent is insufficient. Google has been fined €50 million (~$57 million) by French regulators, the first major penalty under a sweeping new European Union …
GDPR — Six Months and Counting
As 2018 comes to a close, most companies, firms, and agencies which participate in data collection are undoubtedly aware of GDPR and have probably taken some measures to comply with …
Warning: “GDPR Extortion” Could Hurt Your Business, Here’s What to Do!
Most US-based business leaders are at least somewhat familiar with the GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation.) Although this broad set of data regulations is designed to protect the privacy of citizens …
GDPR helps drive growth in privacy tech
There has been rapid growth of technology vendors offering to help enterprises meet their obligations under the GDPR and other privacy regimes Over the past year and a half the …
Facebook’s Latest Breach Illustrates The Limits Of GDPR
Another week, another security failure at Facebook. This week’s “bug” allowed the private photos of up to 6.8 million users to be improperly accessible to up to 1,500 different applications built by …