The EU protects individuals' personal data used by law enforcement authorities to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute criminal offences. On this page Protecting data in judicial and police ...

Our March EU whistleblowing updates webinar explored recent whistleblowing developments and essential actions for effective whistleblowing practices. It also covered new updates specific to the ...

The Directive’s purpose is to provide more robust protection for people living and working within EU countries who report misconduct, unethical behavior, or breaches of the law. Wherever an ...

The European Union's regulatory revolution in data stewardship is not limited to the uber-hyped General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), taking effect on May 25. A separate deadline for each of the ...

Google has criticised how the EU Data Protection Directive is being implemented. While the principles of the directive are sound and have been adopted by many countries, the application of them "no ...

In the latest of a series of actions meant to bolster the E.U.-wide,1995 Data Protection Directive, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it is taking Austria to court for failing to ...

European Union data-protection reform proposals could undermine basic privacy rights globally, a growing chorus of critics say. More than 60 civil rights groups from all corners of the world including ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. In January 2000, the European Union made a move that barely registered in the American press. It sued five of its ...

The state of enforcement of the European Union’s flagship privacy regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), on the most powerful tech giants remains a topic of ongoing debate. Below we’ve ...