For many who are following along with the EU AI Act negotiations, the road to a final agreement took many twists and turns, some unexpected. For Laura Caroli, this long, complicated road has been a lived experience. As the lead technical negotiator and policy advisor to AI Act co-rapporteur and MEP...

In our digitally connected world, safeguarding personal data is essential. The question is, how can government and business collaborate to achieve this critical goal? At present, 137 countries have privacy laws and regulations in place — covering more than three-quarters of the world population — w...

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 ...