The EU protects individuals' personal data used by law enforcement authorities to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute criminal offences. On this page Protecting data in judicial and police ...

European Union data-protection reform proposals could undermine basic privacy rights globally, a growing chorus of critics say. More than 60 civil rights groups from all corners of the world including ...

In the latest of a series of actions meant to bolster the E.U.-wide,1995 Data Protection Directive, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it is taking Austria to court for failing to ...

The European Union's regulatory revolution in data stewardship is not limited to the uber-hyped General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), taking effect on May 25. A separate deadline for each of the ...

Google has criticised how the EU Data Protection Directive is being implemented. While the principles of the directive are sound and have been adopted by many countries, the application of them "no ...

Internet users in the European Union will benefit from greater control over their personal data if new proposals to reform the Data Protection Directive are implemented. The European Commission on ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

The European Parliament approved a new data-protection directive for the telecommunication sector Thursday. Parliament largely approved the compromise on the directive on data protection that was ...

A 30-year old international treaty covering data protection is undergoing a partial rewrite to reflect new concerns in the age of the Internet. The long-titled treaty, called the Convention for the ...

Editor’s note: WRAL TechWire is running a five-part series on data privacy law to bring some clarity to one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of technology law, and the first part is here.