In this fourth alert in our series regarding the European Parliament’s formal endorsement of a new collective actions legislation titled the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ...

In the latest of a series of actions meant to bolster the E.U.-wide,1995 Data Protection Directive, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it is taking Austria to court for failing to ...

The new European privacy directive requires companies to pay particular attention to ensuring regulatory compliance.

The black-red federal government has sent almost 20 pages of reform ideas for the GDPR to the EU Commission. Some of them ...

European Union data-protection reform proposals could undermine basic privacy rights globally, a growing chorus of critics say. More than 60 civil rights groups from all corners of the world including ...

European Union data-protection reform proposals could undermine basic privacy rights globally, a growing chorus of critics say. More than 60 civil rights groups from all corners of the world including ...

Google has criticised how the EU Data Protection Directive is being implemented. While the principles of the directive are sound and have been adopted by many countries, the application of them "no ...

A 30-year old international treaty covering data protection is undergoing a partial rewrite to reflect new concerns in the age of the Internet. The long-titled treaty, called the Convention for the ...

The German Parliament said Tuesday that the European Commission’s controversial Data Retention Directive may be illegal. The directive requires European communications service providers to retain data ...

Editor’s note: WRAL TechWire is running a five-part series on data privacy law to bring some clarity to one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of technology law, and the first part is here.