Andrea Jelinek

A proposal put forward by European Union lawmakers in May, to establish a legal framework to make it easier to share electronic health records and other medical data — across…

Europe’s health data reuse plan needs some surgery, say privacy supervisors

The European Commission has given its clearest signal yet that it’s prepared to intervene over weak enforcement of the EU’s data protection rules against big tech. Today the bloc’s executive…

EU warns adtech giants over ‘legal tricks’ as it moots changes to centralize privacy oversight

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its final recommendations yesterday setting on guidance for making transfers of personal data to third countries to comply with EU data protection rules…

EU puts out final guidance on data transfers to third countries

There have been further calls from EU institutions to outlaw biometric surveillance in public. In a joint opinion published today, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data…

Ban biometric surveillance in public to safeguard rights, urge EU bodies

Europe’s justice commissioner has conceded there will be “no quick fix” for EU-US data transfers in the wake of the decision by the region’s top court in July that struck…

No quick fix for transatlantic data transfers, says EC

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…

Further delay to GDPR enforcement of 2018 Twitter breach