On the 24th April 2018, FEDMA organized its annual data protection event at the European Parliament. This year’s debate was focused on the ePrivacy Regulation proposal’s effect on users and overall coherence between pieces of […]
The Austrian data protection authority chief, Andrea Jelinek, won elections in Article 29 Working Party to take the position of a new chair of the EU’s data watchdog in upcoming months until GDPR coming into […]
As businesses prepare for the new rules with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in 100 days, almost two-thirds (61%) of consumers in the United Kingdom are already happy with the amount […]
The Republic holds the presidency of the Council of the EU since the 1st of January for the first six months of 2018. The presidency with the focus on needs of the European citizens aims […]
On November 9, European Parliament Privacy Platform held a session with the theme “Track or Treat!” Behavioural targeting and online privacy’ during IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress. The panel hosted by MEP Sophie in’t Veld focused on the state-of-play […]
The Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans presented the Commission Work Programme for 2018, entitled: An agenda for a more united, stronger and more democratic Europe”. Most measures were announced previously by Mr Juncker during the […]
The draft version of ePrivacy Regulation is aimed to reinforce trust and security in the Digital Single Market as well as to make it easier for European consumers to manage their privacy online. However, the […]
After invalidated the Safe Harbour agreement to transfer personal data to the US, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will soon be asked to look into another existing tool for international data […]
FEDMA article – Most of the EU citizens are not willing to pay for any services or content online, while 9 out of 10 users say that they would stop accessing their most used websites and […]
FEDMA Article – On Wednesday, September 13, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker presented his annual State of the Union speech in front of members of the European Parliament. Each year representatives of […]
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