Data protection

There are "serious privacy infringements", according to a consumer association.

Spain's National Institute of Statistics has launched a controversial survey this week involving tracking mobile phones on a massive scale, without the consent of customers.

Improving digital literacy is key to protecting your online data from being exploited, whistleblower Brittany Kaiser told the Web Summit in Lisbon.

Google announced it reached “quantum supremacy," a technological achievement that has huge repercussions, not only for the company and its role in the world but for all of us individuals who want to maintain a semblance of the right to privacy.

Investigative journalists have found poor security has left the medical records of millions of patients worldwide totally out in the open.

There are real problems within Interpol’s independence and especially the ability of corrupt governments to target politicians and business people using the Interpol Red Notice system to request extradition.

Social media giant Facebook has been slammed with a record fine of more than €4 billion over privacy violations, but will this be enough to change how Facebook handles users' privacy data?

After roughly 500,000 users' data was compromised in 2018, British Airways faces a fine of £183.39 million (€204.6) by the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

Has data-driven electioneering fundamentally changed since the [Cambridge Analytica] scandal broke? Or is it still business as usual?

The company's inability or unwillingness to change its ways makes America, and Americans, less secure.

An Italian watchdog fines Facebook €10million for misleading users of its data practices. In addition, the authority demanded the company state how it uses data on its website and app.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is not fielding questions at the international committee hearing.

Officials in Germany have stopped children from putting their Christmas wishes on a public tree

How to tell if your data was stolen on Facebook? Euronews explains.

The European Commission should revise its proposed rules for cross-border data flows to clearly prohibit unjustified barriers done in the name of "privacy."

Elections are becoming “increasingly datafied” as political parties tap into big data to target their messaging and this could have a “significant impact” at the ballot box, Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said on Wednesday.

Facebook bug made some private posts public, affecting as many as 14M users.