European Union (EU)
EU Aims to Ban Math — ‘Chat Control 2.0’ Law is Paused but not Stopped
Ongoing European Union quest to break end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mysteriously disappears ...
EU Opens Official Probe of TikTok Over Content, Minors, Privacy
The European Commission is once again turning its attention to TikTok, announcing a wide-ranging investigation into the China-based social media site over concerns about the addictive nature of its site and content, ...
X/Twitter Under Investigation by EU in First DSA Move
DSA VLOP Sinks In. Manipulation, deception, transparency: “We will make full use of our toolbox,” promises Europe ...
Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List
European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...
GDPR FAIL: US Firm ‘Profiles Half the World’ — it’s Max Schrems Again
NYOB accuses TeleSign, Proximus and BICS of misusing phone users’ private data. Reputation scoring = privacy violation? ...
Facebook Fined $1.3B — Zuckerberg Furious in GDPR Fight
GDPR Move for Mark’s Money: No legal way to move Europeans’ data to the US since 2015. Cloud industry better take note ...
New EU Cookie Consent Recommendation from Advocate General
On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar (“Advocate General” or “AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued an opinion in which he recommended that the Court ...