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The French data regulator has, in some ways, sidestepped the international GDPR process by directly pursuing companies’ use of cookies. Despite common beliefs, annoying cookie pop-ups don’t come from GDPR—they’re governed by the EU’s…

Even if you spend a lot of time on the internet, you may not give much thought to your browser. Once you find one you like (probably Google Chrome, if you're anything like the other 3 billion people who use it), chances are it just fades…

Over the past 12 months, the digital threat landscape has evolved significantly, with COVID-19 being used as common bait to deposit ransomware in networks.  The pharmaceutical industry possesses sensitive information such as…

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The mechanism used by IAB Europe – the online ad industry trade body – to establish consent from users to be tracked online has been found illegal and in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the European…

Because Google could access data in plain text, the data wasn’t protected from potential surveillance, the body’s decision says. “This transfer was found to be unlawful because there was no adequate level of protection for the personal data…

In this podcast, we look at what’s coming up in 2022 in compliance, with Mathieu Gorge, who is CEO of VigiTrust. We talk about how countries around the world are in the throes of implementing their own versions of the General Data…

If you haven’t used your Ubisoft account in a while, there’s a chance the game publisher might nuke your account for being inactive—erasing all the games you purchased in the process. That’s the reality one gamer said he discovered after…

Most active websites on the internet are running on cookies and chances are that the website where you have found this article has already set a few cookies on your browser. Though some cookies are essential for making a website…

How Have GDPR Rules Mandated Compliance Training? As per this rule, any organization which gathers data from residents of the EU/based there or works on that data has to protect it. For such rules to be…