While the use of cookie banners for obtaining user consent is becoming a common method to notify users and meet choice obligations, Red Clover Advisors founder and CEO Jodi Daniels, CIPP/US, writes adding a banner to a website "isn't a quick trip to compliance." Daniels said an effective cookie gove...

The Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum is seeking to connect the dots for the international free flow of data through its own rules framework and its newly released Privacy Recognition for Processors System. Both certification systems involve accountability agents, with the BBB National Program...

The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, issued guidance detailing why scraping data from websites is illegal under the EU General Data Protection Regulation in most contexts. The AP claimed there is a general misunderstanding that the practice is legal if it scrapes ...

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office issued a joint statement with the Office of Communications regarding collaboration on regulating digital services where online safety and data protection intersect. "We seek to promote compliance and support innovation, improve regulatory clarity, and enabl...

Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, released its 2023 annual report highlighting the regulator's enforcement actions and data security strategies. The DPA detailed its Project Kvist that allowed businesses to provide feedback on the agency's operational efforts and its current plans to...