Last week, the European parliamentary Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs approved an amended version of the draft EU Data Protection Regulation ...

On November 17 2025, the Council of the European Union (Council) adopted a new regulation, intended to improve cooperation between national EU data protection authorities (DPAs) and speed up the ...

Efforts by EU institutions to fix the enforcement gaps in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) risk doing more harm than good, according to privacy advocacy group noyb. A planned refit of the ...

With the rise of artificial intelligence, the term "data economy" has somewhat fallen into the shadows, even though the European data market/data economy remains substantial. According to a 2025 study ...

While deeming the Privacy Shield agreement an improvement upon the defunct Safe Harbor agreement, an opinion by the EU’s Article 29 Working Party admonished the ...

The European Union (EU) Data Act comes into force today (12 September 2025), giving, says the European Commission, citizens control over data generated by their connected devices, such as smartwatches ...

The EDPB is an independent European legal body responsible for ensuring consistent application of EU data protection rules, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as the Data ...

As EU digital laws come into force and undergo reform, emerging gaps within the digital rulebook are creating space for new ...

Mr John Edokpolor, Lead Commercial Attorney, Microsoft MEA Emerging Markets, said in Lagos that May 25 would be the deadline for compiance with the regulation. Mr John Edokpolor, Lead Commercial ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...