Latest news about Council of Europe work in field of data protection

Committee of Ministers Strasbourg 3 November 2021

The future of international data transfers is multi-dimensional, exploring new territories around the world, featuring binding international agreements for effective enforcement cooperation and slowly entering the agenda of high level intergovernmental organizations.…

En quoi les associations sont-elles concernées par le RGPD ? La France dispose d’un tissu associatif particulièrement riche, recensant plus de 1,3 million d’associations aux profils divers, tant en termes de taille que de secteurs d’activité (caritatif, politique…

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The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and other investors have filed a securities complaint alleging that the firm misled the public about its algorithm and the problems its apps can cause users, according to the company's own research.

The digital world is branching in two directions: techno-authoritarianism – as Chinese technology firms increase their presence in Europe; and a network of private US corporations deploying a business model that is also based on total surveillance. This slow…

The Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have recently conducted a joint probe in order to investigate Clearview’s facial recognition technology. Both Commissions in Australia and the UK have started…

Know about: French administrative court challenges facial recognition, Facts of the case, The role of CNIL.

The nature of central bank digital currencies may mean that privacy in transactions may be impossible to maintain.

Cooperation between regulators across different digital disciplines is still lackluster in Europe.

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RedDoorz.com left red-faced after leaving AWS access key in an APK

The Netherlands’ highest court is guilty of discrimination, according to the head of the Dutch Data Protection Authority. On Friday, the Raad van State is due to publish a report on its own conduct in upholding judgements against victims of the childcare…

Stakeholders in the digital economy sector in Lagos State has stated that experts be drafted to manage the proposed Lagos State Data Protection

The battle between the appetites of European Union Member States’ governments to retain their citizens’ data — for fuzzy, catch-all “security” purposes — and the region’s top court, the CJEU, which continues to defend fundamental rights by reiterating that…

The Information Commissioner's Office contacted 40 companies in the areas of social media, gaming, video, music streaming, including Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and...

The idea of having a virtual identity was popularized by Facebook. Seventeen years and a massive breach later it has kept us wondering how Metaverse i..

Here is the first short contribution to clarify the impact of the messaging apps on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. We refer you to our previous contribution related to the subject "communication manner" which…