On 16 July, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck down the controversial Privacy Shield arrangement for transferring data from the EU to the US. Cue widespread alarm as businesses reliant on such transfers scrambled to work out what other …

As widely anticipated, on 16 July, Europe’s highest court struck down the EU-US data sharing agreement known as Privacy Shield. This is the second time in 5 years that the European Court of Justice (CJEU) has killed such an arrangement …

On Thursday, Europe’s highest court will make a judgement that could see the controversial Privacy Shield accord between the EU and the U.S. struck down.

It is an accepted truth that Europeans care more about their privacy than most. We take it for granted that because the European Union has created the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – an admittedly world-leading piece of privacy legislation – …

European countries have finally managed to agree a common approach to COVID-19 track and trace apps after weeks – months! – of guidance, discussion and recommendations from multiple sources.

On 4 June, French and German ministers unveiled the so-called “European cloud” infrastructure project, Gaia-X.

People don’t walk the walk according to new surveys. So what sort of security measures are everyday users prepared to trust, and are they right?

Ongoing Facebook case drags its feet amid allegations of secret meetings. Max Schrems has struck the latest blow in the ongoing privacy battle with Facebook being played out before the Irish data protection authorities (DPAs).

Led by EDRi, 44 organizations have sounded the alarm about indiscriminate biometric data collection. As of May 2020, at least 15 European countries are experimenting with biometric technologies for purposes which amount to mass surveillance, they say.