One of the defining moments for tech in 2018 was on May 25, when the EU implemented its General Data Protection Regulation — the ominous GDPR. The ambitious legislation is the toughest privacy and ...

Europe’s newest data protection regulation–the General Data Protection Regulation–is here. This new data protection regulation compulsorily requires companies storing data of EU citizens with the ...

May 25th marks the first day of enforcement for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, otherwise known as GDPR, a set of rules that could fundamentally flip the relationship between massive tech ...

Data is breached every single day but most of these breaches don’t make headlines. When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect May 25, 2018, many companies who ...

Companies that routinely collect or process data of European Union residents have likely spent the past couple of years preparing for May 25, 2018. On that date, enforcement of the EU’s new General ...

So far, the biggest perceived effect of the most important data-privacy law ever has been a sharp increase in emails from social networks and web services alerting me that those endless contractual ...

How did it come about? In January 2012, the European Commission set out plans for data protection reform across the European Union in order to make Europe 'fit for the digital age'. Almost four years ...

Europe’s sweeping privacy law GDPR goes into effect May 25th, and Facebook is being forced to push users through new agreements to terms of service changes required ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story yesterday that said Facebook would not bring Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation privacy safeguards around the world. “Overall I think regulations like ...

With data the new currency, economic growth will become directly linked to the protection of data, Cisco chief privacy officer Michelle Dennedy has told ZDNet. Speaking during Cisco Live 2018 in ...

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which originally came into effect in May 2018, and forced organizations to rethink the way they collect and ...