Can't find what you're looking for? Try the search bar or refine your parameters using the Frameworks & Concepts button above.
Smart glasses are attracting much attention these days. Already significant sales seem to pale in comparison to the explosion of social commentary on them, just as the segment of camera-enabled wearables is growing also in terms of form factors and devices, with AI-powered pins, portable speakers and even headphones around the corner. A few months […]
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) can adopt various legal instruments, including Guidelines and Opinions, that are formally non-binding. Yet if supervisory authorities rarely (if ever) depart from them, controllers and processors structure their compliance efforts around them, and data subjects rely upon them in complaints and litigation, perhaps that formal status deserves a second […]
How the EDPB’s attempt to rewrite key data protection concepts creates more issues than it solves Through its Guidelines 02/2026 on Anonymisation of 7 July 2026, the European Data Protection Board seems at first glance to have done the honourable thing: admitting defeat and moving on. But behind the apparent recognition of the relative nature […]
DMA & data: real risk of over-sharing of identifiable, personal search query data. The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the measures it intends to impose on Google for compliance with Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) – a specific obligation to anonymise search query data and share it with other […]
Moving past soundbites, what matters in today’s child online safety debate? A great event last week examined the EU Commission’s plans for protecting children online – and whether a social media “delay” or ban might make sense (or not). The Commission’s approach involves work by a Special Panel on child safety online. It features 21 […]
[This is a translation of an op-ed in French that was published in the French journal Revue Politique on SRB and the Digital Omnibus, plus the newest EDPB & EDPS Joint Opinion on the topic. The original in French can be found on the Revue Politique website. + The banner image is a jest – […]
If the European Commission unveils the (final) full Digital Omnibus proposals on 19 November, what will they cover? Many of us will discuss this during panels at the IAPP conference, but those might be gut reactions depending on the timing of the publication by the Commission. Glad to announce that I will be exchanging on […]
The uncovering of a dataset with information on the movements and even domicile of European Commission officials is an important reminder that, as with every other technology or data point, location data can be abused. Since the news broke out, I have seen several seizing upon it to say that data brokers are inherently illegal […]
Don’t know the candidates, the selection criteria, or how the Irish DPC appointment committee was selected. Still I find it a bit unfortunate that a formal complaint is being placed based on a person’s past experience. Nothing in the complaint filed before the European Commission (irrespective of its (in)admissibility) demonstrates any actual conflict of interest. […]
GDPR & DMA at CEDPO: Another great discussion (and a mini bit of sparring too) with Gwendal Le Grand, together with Borja Martínez Corral and our moderator Natascha Gerlach. Readers know how often I get to write critically about the European Data Protection Board, and my first thoughts on their DMA-GDPR Guidelines drafted together with […]
