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The bill would have been the second of its kind in the nation, but the gap between the version supported by the tech industry, and the more stringent version favored by privacy groups, proved too big to close.
An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the surface the enforcement doesn’t look so remarkable: A ‘small’ ~€220K fine was handed to a Sweden-headquartered European digital marketing company, Bisnode, which has an office in Poland, […]
Stern words to sites that deny access if users reject trackers
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How will research respond to a changing regulatory space?
Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect in May 2018, under certain circumstances, territorial law subjects U.S. companies that process
Ever since the 25th May last year, the privacy community has been on tenterhooks, waiting to see whether European DPAs would take advantage of the significant fining powers afforded to them under the GDPR.
The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") holds a data controller accountable for verifying its compliance with the GDPR's key principles of:…
A ruling in late October against a little-known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe who believe it signals the beginning of the end for creepy online ads. The excitement is palpable. Impressively so, given […]
"I didn't see how we could justify standing on tradition when it was causing that kind of suffering...It really comes down to: How long does somebody have to pay for a mistake?"
Many U.S. higher education institutions are still grappling with how to comply with European Union data-privacy rules, but so far none have come under scrutiny.
In The Big Short, investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.” (Burry shorted the mania- and fraud-filled subprime mor…
If Facebook and Google's recent security debacles proved anything, it's that disclosure is tricky business.
It’s been just over four months since Europe’s tough new privacy framework came into force. You might believe that little of substance has changed for big tech’s data-hungry smooth operators since then — beyond firing out a wave of privacy policy update spam, and putting up a fresh cluster of consent pop-ups that are just […]
Europe's new data privacy law has put a small army of tech firms that track people online in jeopardy and is strengthening the hand of giants such as Google and Facebook in the $200 billion global digital advertising industry.
Some third-party cookies were still present, of course. But there was a decrease in third-party content loaded from social media platforms and from content recommendation widgets.