Ever since GDPR came in across the EU, companies have been scrambling to comply. Responsibility for policing this has fallen to regional governments and now each will need to report six times a year.
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Several organisations and individuals have announced Global Privacy Control. It's hoped GPC will become an open standard that lets people enforce their rights under privacy laws like CCPA and GDPR.
Twitter launched today its Twitter Privacy Center, where the company will be sharing related initiatives, announcements, new privacy products, and communications for security incidents.
Google has agreed to halt its voice recording transcriptions in EU for three months, starting on August 1, as Germany's data privacy regulators are conducting an investigation into such activities.
The privacy tool, previously available in the European Union, now allows Apple users in several countries to see, download, or remove the data the tech giant has collected about them.
Following last week's discovery of a security flaw that may have impacted as many as 50 million users, Facebook could end up paying a hefty fine under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation.
Facebook announced that it has partnered with TeachPrivacy to help small businesses build privacy-oriented services. It also teamed up with HackerOne to educate mobile startup developers on privacy.
In order to comply with GDPR, Facebook is rolling out changes regarding how it handles customer privacy by asking users to make the decision about which data they want to share with the public.
In compliance with the EU GDPR, Microsoft has begun a new parental consent system for accounts held by children. These changes come well ahead of the May 25 deadline imposed by the EU Parliament.
Swiss-Hungarian encrypted storage provider Tresorit has announced the availability of a File Restore feature, along with doubling the storage of both subscription tiers for personal accounts.
Wishing to avoid any potential for fines from the EU, Wetherspoon has deleted email information for all of its customers and will instead communicate with them via social media outlets.
On May 25, 2018, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation becomes applicable. We take a look at what it is, what it does, and what steps companies are taking in order to comply with it.
With a year left until the EU's General Data Protection Regulation comes into force, Microsoft has outlined a few of the tools companies can use to track and improve their compliance with the law.
The Redmond software giant has announced it will publicly offer contractual commitments regarding the European Union's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, set to arrive in May 2018.
Microsoft is committed to complying with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation across all its cloud services by May 25, 2018, the date at which the law starts being applied.
