A whole range of industries around the world are quite and perhaps wearily so, familiar with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. These companies are in financial services, the legal industry, ...

If you read financial news with any kind of regularity, you have likely come across the acronym GDPR over the past several months. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. This law was ...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted in 2016 and officially launched in May 2018 to govern the use of personal data by both EU and non-EU companies who collect, ...

Let’s all take a minute to appreciate the view in the British Airways social media cockpit, where staffers at the coalface of the airline’s Twitter account have presided over a wildly unusual ...

Cookies hold visitor information for websites and are crucial for some basic functions, like remembering your username. But ...

The finance sector is the most affected by GDPR data breaches, reporting 2,175 cases between 2023 and Q1 of 2025, according ...

A new report by European consumer protection umbrella group Beuc, reflecting on the barriers to effective cross-border enforcement of the EU’s flagship data protection framework, makes awkward reading ...

European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, up 168% on 2021, with Meta the hardest hit. According to the latest GDPR and Data Breach Survey from international law firm ...

Today, the European Union cements its status as the global leader in data privacy. The E.U.’s sweeping new data privacy law is taking effect, ushering in new restrictions on what companies can do with ...