Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp parent Meta has issued an even more urgent warning than before in its stock market reporting obligations that the pending decision by Ireland’s data protection regulator could jeopardize its European business. Meta expects the decision “no earlier than the third quarter of 2022”.The Group is hoping for the announced new Trans-Atlantic […]
Now that the DSA has been passed in the European Parliament, the EU Commission, which will be responsible for supervising the particularly large platforms and search engines (VLOP and VLOSE), can slowly get to work: “Enforcement is key,” wrote Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton in a LinkedIn post explaining the EU approach to […]
The data protection drama between the supervisory authority DPC Ireland and Facebook is entering the next round. The Irish data protection authority has now forwarded its draft decision to the other European supervisory authorities. According to a report in the Irish Independent, it states that the DPC wants to prohibit Facebook and Instagram from transferring […]
MEPs have submitted over 3,000 amendments to the EU Commission’s proposals. During the exchange between the responsible rapporteurs in a joint meeting of the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) and the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE), it became clear what the priorities are.Nervously, he turns his wedding ring on his finger, but otherwise appears satisfied: Dragoș […]
Important legal issues surrounding the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data protection by default and by design will soon occupy data protection supervisory authorities and courts. Several consumer protection organizations are taking action against the Alphabet subsidiary Google in a coordinated campaign with various legal remedies. The reason, according to consumer […]
In the future, Luxembourg-based data processors will be able to subject themselves to a certification mechanism. This is intended to certify highly GDPR-compliant data processing.At a conference on Tuesday, the Luxembourg data protection supervisory authority Commission nationale pour la protection des données (CNPD) presented its GDPR-CARPA mechanism. This makes the Grand Duchy’s data protection regulator […]
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement with the Commission on Tuesday in the trilogue on the revision of the Critical Entity Directive (CER). The CER Directive is to replace the previous critical infrastructure directive of 2008. CER is closely related to the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, whose revision […]
Shortly ahead of the candidate status summit, the European Parliament publishes the results of the Eurobarometer spring survey. And, lo and behold: Rarely have there been so many good Europeans. Almost two-thirds of EU citizens surveyed have a favorable view of the EU. Europe as a place for which people long, as a place of […]
Parliament’s amendments to the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) are extensive. The Internal Market and Legal Affairs Committees alone, which are the lead committees, have tabled more than 3,300 amendments to the Commission’s draft bill. The deadline for submitting amendments to the complex dossier was extended to June 1. The subsequent deliberations are expected to […]
The European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection IMCO adopted the compromise on the Digital Services Act (DSA) by a large majority on Thursday morning. 36 of the MEPs voted in favor of the text negotiated in the trilogue, only six against.This clears the way for a vote in the plenary of the […]