This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. I started the year writing about three important new laws that were with us in the House of ...

Companies in Europe are facing increasing pressure to respond to data breaches while ensuring compliance with GDPR regulations. The rise in data breaches, including those involving personal data and ...

Uber has been fined €290 million in the Netherlands for improperly sending driver data from Europe to the U.S. CrowdStrike could have a European-size data problem on its hands While CrowdStrike ...

The proposed overhaul won’t land quietly in Brussels, and if the development of the GDPR and AI Act are anything to go by, a ...

The new so-called EU 'Digital Omnibus' has finally arrived, and here are what three of its biggest rollbacks of existing ...

Congress has repeatedly failed to pass comprehensive national data protection legislation, and the states are rapidly filling the void with laws that impose different requirements on a state-by-state ...

Under pressure from industry and the US, Europe is reducing protections in its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ...

Data protectionists call for more protection for children in the digital space, proposing privacy safeguards and measures ...

European Union (EU) officials are discussing the possibility of simplifying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ...

The Organization for Responsible Governance (ORG) said it welcomes the “positive” amendments made to the Data Protection Bill 2025 but warned that without clear safeguards or transparent oversight, it ...

The Council adopts a new law to improve cooperation between national data protection authorities when enforcing the GDPR.

The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is the first major piece of data protection legislation since the UK left the European Union (EU) four years ago. Instead of completely ...