Tag: Data
EU Tells Ireland WhatsApp Privacy Case Must Be Decided In A...
EU privacy watchdog EDPB gave the Irish data protection agency a month to issue a long-delayed decision on compliance by Facebook's WhatsApp after its...
Volkswagen Pledges To Follow China’s Data Laws
Volkswagen will ensure that it fully complies with China's stringent new data privacy rules, the carmaker said in a briefing on its first-half sales...
LinkDoc Is First Chinese Firm To Cancel US IPO Over Beijing’s...
Chinese medical data group LinkDoc Technology has shelved plans for an IPO in the United States due to Beijing's clampdown on overseas listings by...
Facebook, Google, Twitter Could Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Law
US tech giants Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, and Twitter have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the...
Vestager Defends Google Fitbit Data Deal Approval
According to Bloomberg, Vestager responded to criticism that she’s been too lenient on big tech, pointing to Google’s pledge to separate data before taking...
UK Watchdog Will Probe Amazon’s Data Use
The UK’s competition watchdog is planning a formal competition investigation into Amazon, mirroring a continuing investigation by the EU, according to three people familiar...
German Regulator Goes After Google For Data Use
Germany's antitrust watchdog has launched a probe into whether Google Germany, Google Ireland, and its parent company Alphabet are exploiting their market dominance in the...
Court Allows Irish Regulator To Proceed With Inquiry Into Facebook Data
Facebook lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about European users to US...
The EU Regulation Of The Data-Driven Economy
By Bjorn Lundqvist (Stockholm University)
Powerful platforms that ‘hoard’ data in ecosystems, prevents the possibility to access or port data, or restrict interoperability may...
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission Begins Inquiry Into Facebook
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced last week that it has started an inquiry into Facebook regarding a possible contravention of European privacy regulations,...
