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 ...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority recently updated its cookie banner guidance. This comes after the agency, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (or ...

As email inboxes around the world are flooded with updated privacy policy notifications, the European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), takes effect on May 25.

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story yesterday that said Facebook would not bring Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation privacy safeguards around the world. “Overall I think regulations like ...

According to a Bitkom survey, 97 percent of companies complain about high data protection efforts. Three-quarters see ...

The EU hopes changes will make doing business easier, but campaigners fear citizens' rights are under threat. What can we expect from the EU's proposed new laws on GDPR and AI?

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 ...