Since it started in May 2018, enforcement of the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the EU has revealed various national trends and differences in approach. Yet one difference seems to dwarf all others: the variation in the amount of the fines for GDPR violations. This has led the European Data Protection
“Dark patterns” – social media platform interfaces that can lead users to make unintended and potentially harmful decisions regarding the processing of their personal data – are a subject of increasing scrutiny in the EU. New guidelines of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on “dark patterns in social media platform interfaces” confirm the focus
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has weighed in on the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive in response to questions from the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA). Addressing how and when each set of rules applies to processing data, the EDPB stated that “these questions concern a matter
