Amsterdam violated privacy legislation when the city collected the Facebook data of thousands of loitering young people in 2015, NRC reports. According to the newspaper, in 2015 Amsterdam collected over 100 friends...

The EU's new data protection laws entered into force this week, but do you know what the GDPR is and why it matters to you?

Privacy First, a privacy advocacy organization, tells the Cabinet, "The state must stop providing personal data to churches as soon as possible."

A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for one year for hacking the online accounts of Dutch celebrities. In 2017, the man hacked the Facebook, Gmail and Evernote accounts of several Dutch celebrities. He then...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European Parliament to discuss the improper use of millions of users’ data by a political consultancy firm. Zuckerberg will meet as soon as next week with EP...

Social media companies are making changes to their services ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entering force on May 25. Snapchat now says it will stop retaining certain data, including precise...

Thanks to new legal changes, it is now possible to lift professional secrecy - the duty of confidentiality of professionals like doctors and prosecutors - in some cases.

A new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data will protect nearly 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world - unless Facebook pushes through changes to shrink this number. Facebook...

British and US lawyers have launched a joint class action against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and two other companies for allegedly misusing the personal data of more than 71 million people. The lawsuit claims the...

Are you ready to do something against the censorship regulations in the draft copyright law? You can either call your representative in the European Parliament or send them our pre-drafted email. Or do both.