It is a special feature of the EU legislative process: only the EU Commission can propose new laws - and withdraw them at any time as long as they have not been adopted. This is exactly what is now ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection ...

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 ...

National data protection authorities should see easier cooperation in cross-border privacy cases under updated rules that were rubber stamped by the EU institutions on Monday evening. The European ...

TikTok has once again made headlines after the European Union privacy watchdog imposed a 530 million euros ($600 million) fine, highlighting that the platform's transfer of user data to China has ...

The EU (European Union) is setting the stage for major changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2025 to simplify, advance and refocus the compliance side of existing regulatory ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union's most iconic tech law was long thought to be untouchable. Those days are over. The EU executive on Wednesday will present its plan to amend the General Data Protection ...

EU privacy regulators have for the first time taken aim at Beijing’s sweeping surveillance laws in a ruling that threatens to cut off data pipelines with China to protect Europeans. Ireland’s powerful ...

An EU court has dismissed a challenge taken by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) against Europe’s top data protection board, a ruling likely to fuel further criticism of the Irish regulator’s ...

More than 40 organizations are calling on Ursula von der Leyen to be more resilient to pressure from Washington. EU law ...

Irish data protection authorities have fined TikTok €530 million for breaching data privacy rules in transferring European users’ personal data to China, following a lengthy investigation. The fine is ...