Data Protection

UK data rules to ease burden on business, cut cookie warnings

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will set out a new data protection regime on Friday that diverges from EU regulations, which it says will ease the burden of compliance on businesses and reduce…

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Irish Catholic Church records on baptisms and other sacraments may be inspected over GDPR concerns

The State’s data watchdog in Ireland may have to inspect Catholic Church records in its investigation into whether the church is legally obliged to delete records of people seeking to…

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Austrian Post fined for selling customer data

Austrian Post has been ordered to pay €18 million for collecting and selling mailers' perceived political preferences. The Austrian Data Protection Authority decided on the administrative penalty after finding that…

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ECJ: National law enforcement authorities may access individuals’ personal information held by telecoms companies

Europe’s highest court ruled today that national law enforcement authorities may access individuals’ personal information held by telecoms companies if such data-gathering does not seriously infringe their privacy rights. In…

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Ireland’s data protection commission opens case into Facebook cyber attack which affected 50m users

Ireland’s data regulator has opened a case into the cyber attack that allowed hackers to access up to 50m Facebook accounts. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for regulating…

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EU to address misuse of personal data by political parties

The Financial Times reports that the EU is seeking the power to impose significant fines on European political parties who misuse voters’ personal data to influence elections, as Brussels moves…

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