TikTok to face EU fine over processing of children’s data
TikTok will face a fine over its handling of children’s data in the EU following a decision made Friday by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). The EDPB decision means that the Irish Data Protection Commission will be able to issue a financial penalty within…
Brussels rules US is safe destination for EU personal data but activists announce court challenge
Brussels on Monday announced that the transfer of personal data to the US can legally take place after securing safeguards over access by intelligence agencies and the creation of a redress mechanism for EU residents. The adequacy decision means Brussels considers that Washington ensures a…
Brussels pitches GDPR reform but without opening ‘Pandora’s box’
The European Commission has proposed to make surgical changes to the bloc’s landmark data privacy legislation. Known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the law redefined what privacy means in the 21st century and gave Europeans the right to decide who has access to…
EU competition authorities can add data protection breaches to investigations – EU court says
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was ruling on a case in Germany between Meta and the country’s antitrust authority. National competition bodies throughout the EU can look at compliance with the bloc’s data protection rules during any investigation of antitrust breaches,…
Uber investigating ‘cybersecurity incident’ after hacker breaches computer network
Uber said on Friday it was responding to a cybersecurity incident after a hacker apparently breached its network. The New York Times reported that Uber had discovered the breach on Thursday and taken several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the…
Why does Elon Musk want Twitter? The answer may lie with what he could do with your data
This story was originally published on April 26, 2022. Another social media giant coming under the control of a single billionaire is alarming governments, researchers, and rights groups who are concerned about the amount of data Elon Musk’s Twitter buy will allow him and how…
Inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee wants to save your data from Big Tech with Web3.0
The creator of the World Wide Web is now on a mission to save it. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the person who made it possible to read this online article, first came up with the concept of the Web back in 1989. But 33 years later,…
