Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, regional privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch of ...

New York-based IAB Tech Labs, a standards body for the digital advertising industry, is being taken to court in Germany by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in a piece of privacy litigation ...

New changes are on the horizon for GDPR enforcement across the European Union. At the very end of 2025, the EU adopted a regulation intended ...

The privacy advocacy group noyb, founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, has raised concerns over how ChatGPT handles questions about real-life individuals. The group alleges that ChatGPT has been ...

Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing a new privacy complaint in Europe related to its ad targeting tools. The complaint, which is being lodged with the Dutch ...

Brave Software, the maker of adblocking web browser Brave, has lodged a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner over IAB Europe's 'cookie wall'. Brave claims visitors of iabeurope.eu are ...

Poland’s data protection watchdog has confirmed it has opened an investigation into OpenAI over a complaint it received from an applicant. Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) has opened an ...

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The social media company Meta is facing a complaint for breaching European data protection law after offering customers the choice of accepting targeted advertisements based on their likes, interests ...

Ever since the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools exploded onto the tech scene, there have been questions over where they’re getting their data and whether they’re harvesting your ...

Datatilsynet, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, has issued LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr an advanced notification of a NOK100m (€9.6m/£8.5m) fine – or 10% of turnover as per the General Data ...