In this fourth alert in our series regarding the European Parliament’s formal endorsement of a new collective actions legislation titled the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ...

GDPR is a regulation that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that occur within EU member states. And non-compliance could cost companies ...

The European data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has determined that current EU legislation on the retention of personal data contradicts rights to privacy and data protection. EURACTIV France ...

In less than 12 months, new legislation comes into place across the European Union (EU) that will radically change the terms of use for personal data. The General ...

Hope everyone had wonderful Fourth of July holiday. Alex Cotoia, Regulatory Manager, at the Volkov Law Group rejoins us for Parts III and IV of his series on the EU Whistleblower Directive. Article 17 ...

The European General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), the most significant change to data protection in three decades, becomes effective on May 25, 2018. The regulation intends to strengthen ...

European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has unveiled the new European data privacy framework that includes a new regulation and a new directive. “This is a strong, consistent, future-proof ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that became effective on May 25, 2018. It strengthens and builds on the EU's current data protection framework, ...

Comprehensive data protection laws are essential for protecting human rights – most obviously, the right to privacy, but also many related freedoms that depend on our ability to make choices about how ...

In the 2013 landmark case between Google Spain v Marcio C. Gonzalez, in an instant Google – the world’s largest and most advanced search engine – had to comply with a European Union (EU) court outcome ...