The European Union's important new law, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), is likely to have an impact well beyond the EU’s borders. Unfortunately, that impact will be negative in…
Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office is investigating a GDPR complaint against ChatGPT and the company behind it, OpenAI. According to the Polish data protection agency: the complainant turned to the…
TikTok has officially come of age: it has joined an exclusive club of companies that have been hit with major fines for infringing on the EU’s main privacy law, the…
Google has announced that its Privacy Sandbox for the Web is now generally available to anyone using Chrome browser. It’s the latest iteration of Google’s efforts to improve online privacy…
A new law is about to be passed in the UK that will have a serious negative knock-on effect around the world. It’s part of a wider move by governments…
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a major new EU law with the potential to be as influential globally as the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It aims to…
In June, Canada passed the Online News Act, commonly known as C-18. It's framed as a law that's designed to help Canadian news publishers financially, as it forces large tech companies…
It’s no surprise that AI is starting to seep into every kind of digital service, even if the frenzy over generative AI seems to be dying down somewhat. But over on…
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the threat to privacy that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) represent. Worldcoin is a potential answer to this problem. The project aims to create…
In a surprise move, Meta has announced its intention to change the legal basis used to process certain data for behavioural advertising for people in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland…