Although the GDPR fine value was slightly higher in 2025, the number of personal data breach reports rose even more.

Europe has levied €1.2 billion in GDPR fines during 2025 as data privacy enforcement remains a key priority for authorities.

The EU's landmark privacy law called GDPR went into effect one year ago. Tech CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook have called for “comprehensive privacy legislation” similar to GDPR. Lawmakers ...

When the May 25 enforcement deadline for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rolls around, U.S. companies, organizations and institutions that target their products and services to ...

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The tech world has been bracing for a new set of European privacy rules that go into effect: the General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR. Companies will have either changed how they ...

Since the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted a year ago, a lot has changed in how organizations worldwide treat personal data. GDPR mandates that those that control ...

Designed to update the privacy rights of internet users and ensure organisations are transparent and responsible when handling the personal information of customers and clients, the European Union's ...

Three months in and Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is still a confusing mess. More than a thousand websites are still blocked across Europe and intrusive privacy popups have ...

Data privacy challenges are garnering worldwide attention, with data positioned as the new oil. When reports and interviews around data privacy are covered by the New York Times, 60 Minutes, and CNN, ...

Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data ...

Ireland’s embattled data protection regulator, the DPC, has announced the submission of a draft decision sent to other EU DPAs Friday in relation to a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...