Despite its achievements, the General Data Protection Regulation’s flaws have become evident. Some are already questioning whether the regulation and the way it is regulated are fit for purpose and whether the law needs to be changed.
Google’s data terms are now in Germany’s competition crosshairs
Germany’s national competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, has continued its investigative charge against big tech announcing that it’s opened two proceedings into Google.
The move follows earlier proceedings targeting Amazon and Facebook both of which are also looking to determine whether their businesses are of “paramount significance for competition across markets”, as German competition law puts it. (The regulator is also probing Facebook’s tying of Oculus to Facebook accounts.)
In Google’s case, one of the Bundeskartellamt’s new proceedings will confirm whether amended competition rules, which came into force in January, apply in its case which would enable the FCO to target it with proactive interventions in the interests of fostering digital competition.
Google Plans To Eradicate Cookies
Regulators and rivals have raised concerns about Google’s grand plan to rewrite the rules of online advertising.
Google is to restrict the number of advertising cookies on websites accessed via its Chrome browser, in response to calls for greater privacy controls.
It said that it would phase out third-party cookies within the next two years,
Millions of people are already part of a global experiment to delete cookies once and for all. Since last month, Google has been testing new browser-based technologies in Chrome that could turn the global advertising industry upside down.
Cookies are small text files that are used to track users across the web. Cookies are used to collect user data, which can be on both an aggregate and anonymised level, such as clicks on page, pages viewed, engagement elements, and also on a PII (personal identifiable information) level, such as device IDs, names, addresses, passwords and credit card numbers. Most
MEPs call for infringement procedure against Irish data protection authority over lack of GDPR enforcement
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MEPs call for infringement procedure against Irish data protection authority over lack of GDPR enforcement
MEPs express deep concern that many complaints filed with the Irish DPC since 2018 have not yet been decided
DPC accused of overly light touch regulation
541 MEPs voted in favour of the motion with only one against; 115 abstained.
Pathways for U.S. companies to transfer personal data out of the European Union have been repeatedly blocked by EU authorities concerned by what they perceive as gaps in data protection.