Blog: EU Privacy Laws
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GDPR and Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
In recent years, Google has run into several issues regarding privacy of its users and has been the subject of several related lawsuits. The most recent of these has been regarding the unlawful transfer of personal data across EU-U.S. borders through the use of Google Analytics. In light of this legal...
The EDPB's Guidelines for Handling Data Breaches
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issues guidance on data protection for companies operating in Europe. Because Europe has especially protective data security laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it can be intimidating for smaller businesses or businesses expanding into Europe to begin European operations. That's why the EDPB...
Google Analytics and Privacy Data - Violations
(Editor's Note: In January of 2023, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework was approved and replaces the old Privacy Shield framework mentioned in this article.) On January 13, 2022, the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) ruled that the continuous use of the world-famous web analytics program, Google Analytics, violates the EU's General...
GDPR for Beginners
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a comprehensive legal framework that regulates how companies collect and process personal data in the European Union (EU). Revered as the most robust digital privacy regulation in the world today, the GDPR has been a landmark in the data protection realm, establishing a new...
GDPR Overview
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation set forth by the EU that governs the protection and dissemination of personal data and enhances digital privacy for people located in the EU. The GDPR's primarily goal is to serve as a unifying, comprehensive, data and privacy framework for any organization...
Does the GDPR Require the Listing of Individual Cookies by Name?
The European Union currently boasts the world's most comprehensive and expansive regulatory framework to date, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Complementing this law is the e-Privacy Directive (aka the EU Cookies Directive) to ensure the firm establishment of data protection and online privacy in the EU. A critical area covered...