TikTok has been hit with a massive $600 million (€530 million) fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by sending European users’ data to servers in China.
Facebook (now known as Meta) is facing a $414 million fine from European regulators, who ruled that the company’s services illegally deployed targeted ads using data that tracks users around the internet.
TikTok has revealed that its employees in China have access to the private data of accounts based in the UK and the European Union.
A government recommended online learning tool used by thousands of schools during the lockdown harvested the data of children, an investigation has found.
The European Union is aiming to set up a medical super-database containing the medical information of citizens from across the multinational bloc.
Ireland’s Minister for Justice — who implemented a broad amnesty for illegal migrants earlier in the year — has told parliament that sex offenders have a ‘right to be forgotten’ under EU law.
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a grandmother must delete the photographs of her grandchildren that she posted to Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission due to Europe’s GDPR laws on data privacy.
Social media company Twitter recently revealed that it had “unintentionally” used email addresses and phone numbers provided by users for account security purposes for targeted advertising.
Poland has officially filed a complaint against the European Union’s recent copyright directive, claiming that it will cause unwanted censorship.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently published an op-ed in the New York Times in which he stated that “privacy should not be a luxury good,” and describes his company as having “a profound commitment to responsibility and a healthy dose of humility.”
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of privacy-based search engine DuckDuckGo, called for privacy legislation in the United States during a hearing on GDPR and CCPA before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, explaining how it could create more competition and innovation.
Filings submitted to U.K., Irish, and Polish regulators allege that Google was aware that its advertising network business model broke E.U. GDPR laws.
Germany’s antitrust regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, is cracking down on Facebook over its collection of user data. The agency promises, “Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data.”
French regulators have reportedly fined Google nearly $57 million for violating GDPR rules on data privacy.
Multiple European Union consumer groups have accused tech giant Google of violating EU privacy laws by covertly tracking user’s movements.
Facebook is expected to report a loss of users in the European Union, possibly as many as 1 million, following the implementation of updated E.U. privacy laws.
Twitter is reportedly being investigated in Ireland over alleged tracking of users through its special shortened links.
Google’s failure to enter a consortium of advertising technology companies has ruined the group’s attempts to comply with new EU GDPR privacy laws.
The Norwegian Consumer Council has analyzed how Facebook and Google convince users to share more of their personal data in a new report.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has warned that the new European Union data law could create a barrier to U.S.-UK trade post-Brexit and may obstruct vital transatlantic data sharing in the fight against terror.
Tech companies Google, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been hit with threats of huge fines only a few short days after new EU data laws came into effect.
Microsoft has announced plans to introduce GDPR-style privacy rules for all of their users worldwide.
Facebook and Google face lawsuits of up to $8.8 billion on the first day of new GDPR EU data laws, according to a report.
The launch day of wide-reaching new data laws implemented by the European Union saw dozens of United States newspapers blocked to users in Europe as companies struggle to match the requirements of the legislation.
Apple has published a service that allows European users to download all of the data that the company stores on them, but has not said if U.S. users will follow suit.
Facebook has made moves to shrink their legal responsibilities under new EU data laws by storing as much international user data as possible in the United State instead of Ireland
