Privacy

PI seeks to inform inquiry of UK Joint Committee on Human Rights on human rights and AI

Conseil d'État upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine

Data Subject Rights The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) fined Criteo, a major online advertisement and...

GDPR Omnibus: EU “simplification” far removed from real business needs

GDPR Policy Ever since the European Commission has published its Digital Omnibus proposal, discussions about the...

Digital Omnibus Report V3: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission

GDPR Policy On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus",...

Digital Omnibus: EU DPAs reject many proposed changes to the GDPR

GDPR Policy The EDPB (combining all independent data protection authorities) and the European Data Protection...

Data Protection Day: 5 misconceptions about data protection, debunked

Ever since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force in 2018, people in the European Union have...

noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children

Data Subject Rights noyb has scored another win in its proceedings against Microsoft 365 Education: The Austrian data...

CRIF case shows: Public registries are increasingly being misused

Credit Scoring An investigation into data flows at the Austrian credit agency CRIF has shed further light on the...

Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data

Online & Mobile tracking Austrian Supreme Court (OGH): Meta must provide full access to all personal data of user...

TikTok unlawfully tracks your shopping habits – and your use of dating apps

Online & Mobile tracking TikTok not only tracks its users while they are using the TikTok app itself, but it is...

EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come

Data Transfers Most EU-US data transfers are based on the “Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework” (TAFPF) or...

‘Pay or Okay’ study: Users prefer a tracking-free “third option”

Cookie Banners So-called ‘Pay or Okay’ systems are on the rise in Europe. Instead of giving users a choice to...