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 ...

Time seems to work differently when you spend your days online. The memes, moments, and scandals that feel like ages ago are often really only months, weeks, or even days in the past — and what was ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been fined €17 million (~$18.6 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a string of historical data breaches. The security lapses in question, ...

As the deadline for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation compliance draws closer, searches for the acronym "GDPR" on Google's search engine continue to rise. This has prompted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When asked why the company waited three months to inform users about the ...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) intends to fine Marriott International Inc £99,200,396 ($123,705,869 / €110,385,736) for infringing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach that dates back ...

How has GDPR enforcement played out in the past year? The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteitpersoonsgegevens, or AP) recently published a report on its 2018 activities. The report highlights ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) remains Europe's largest data enforcer by a wide margin, having issued €4.04 ...

GDPR enforcement across Europe remained consistently high throughout 2025, with regulators issuing fines totalling ...