"With a large majority vote, @Europarl_EN committee has sent a strong signal tonight: as of today data protection is made in #Europe. " With that tweet – immediately after the important European ...

The road to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been a game of catch-up with legislation responding to shifts in the technological landscape. Sweden was the first country in ...

The European data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has determined that current EU legislation on the retention of personal data contradicts rights to privacy and data protection. EURACTIV France ...

A European Union directive that required telecom operators to retain data for two years has been deemed “invalid”, Brussels’ highest court ruled today. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the ...

Where data centres located in the EEA are utilised for cloud computing services, the customers, and in some circumstances even cloud service providers, could become subject to the EU Data Protection ...