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Europe's top court says that file-sharers subjected to mass surveillance and retention of data didn't have their privacy breached.

The top legal advisor to the EU's highest court says the retention & disclosure of information to identify pirates is compatible with EU law.

Back in November last year, Walled Culture reported on the shocking opinion by a top EU court advisor that copyright was more important than privacy. The case in question was brought by four French associations for the protection of rights and freedoms on the Internet (La Quadrature du Net, the Federation of Associative Internet Access Providers,…

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France monitors millions of internet users and stores their data to prevent online piracy, but is it legal? The EU's top court will decide.

ENISA Publishes Threat Landscape Reports for 2020 On October 20, 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity ("ENISA") published a series of reports on the threat landscape in 2020. The reports focused on, among other things, malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks, information leakage, and phishing attacks. The reports identified and evaluated the top cybersecurity threats for the period of January 2019-April 2020. ENISA Publishes Guidelines for Securing the IoT Supply Chain On Nove...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. With Brexit on the horizon, potential changes to data transfer laws raise the spectre of disruption to personal data transfers from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK. From 1 January 2021, the UK will be considered a third country outside of the EEA for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). Ahead of this deadline, businesses should start thinking...