There are three primary types of cookie banners: notice-only, opt-in, and opt-out. While there are variations within each type, these broadly represent the general approaches to obtaining user consent ...

Everybody's email inboxes are stuffed with all manner of messages about privacy policies and GDPR changes. Mark Overton of Softcat takes a look at some of the best examples of companies who have ...

Let’s all take a minute to appreciate the view in the British Airways social media cockpit, where staffers at the coalface of the airline’s Twitter account have presided over a wildly unusual ...

THE information watchdog has said it is not looking to make an example of small businesses which fall foul of the EU's new data protection law. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into ...

The fine is unprecedented: It’s the biggest GDPR fine issued to date and is more than double the amount of every other GDPR fine combined. The financial penalty, which Amazon is appealing, comes at a ...

WHOIS, the searchable “phonebook” of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR — or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is. The WHOIS internet domain directory is at the center ...

Many non‑US businesses assume that compliance with the European Union’s GDPR or a similar home‑country law will largely ...

Big Tech take note: In what looks like a meaningful — and long overdue — reforming step, the European Commission has committed to dial up its monitoring of how data protection authorities at the EU ...