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GDPR inquiry launched on the use of Azure and AWS in the bloc

EU's privacy regulator, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has started an inquiry into whether th...

Kimanthi Sammy May 31, 2021

The woman who led the development of the wide-ranging law now says it badly needs rewriting. Former EU jus...

Joseph Brunoli May 25, 2021

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), under which all European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) fall, ...

Kimanthi Sammy May 21, 2021

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution calling on the European Commission to open an inf...

Kimanthi Sammy May 21, 2021

Microsoft is to set up a separate European branch of its cloud services exclusively for European companies an...

Emile Witteman May 6, 2021

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland will investigate the Facebook incident from earlier this mont...

Emile Witteman April 15, 2021

Since the introduction of the GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission has been swamped with work to enforc...

Emile Witteman March 29, 2021

British government seems pleased with the EU decision on post-Brexit data flow The Government of the Unite...

Joseph Brunoli February 22, 2021

President Emmanuel Macron has a warning for some of the big tech companies. He wants them to get on board wit...

Kimanthi Sammy January 28, 2021

WhatsApp may face one of the biggest GDPR fines ever. The European Union is investigating whether the chat ap...

Emile Witteman January 26, 2021