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The General Data Protection Regulation applies to EES records.
The legal landscape for creating without distributing them is fragmented: , federal law and many state statutes now criminalize distribution or threats to distribute non-consensual intimate imagery an...
Codifying “voluntary” scanning into law would shift a currently time‑limited derogation into a permanent legal framework that reshapes technical, commercial and legal choices for messaging services . ...
A final "" regulation would face predictable, multi‑front legal assault grounded in Charter rights to privacy and data protection, established precedents against generalized surveillance, and principl...
Publishers, historians and confidants operate in a legal environment that often treats the dead differently from the living—statutory frequently end at death—yet professional ethics demand balancing p...
Google provides built‑in anonymization controls for Google Analytics: in the older Universal Analytics (UA) product site owners could enable an IP‑masking flag, and in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) IP anon...
UK and EU age‑verification rules do not mandate a single retention schedule but consistently require strict data‑minimisation, purpose limitation and avoidance of unnecessary storage: platforms must d...
The -backed social media project called was unveiled at as a Europe-hosted, identity-verified alternative to X, but has not launched, funded or officially backed the platform . Reporting shows W is a ...
and will shift the first-line legal regime governing compelled access from ’s unique criminal-barrier and independent data-protection framework to /EEA‑aligned rules and domestic processes in Germany ...
preservation orders—court mandates and discovery holds that require parties to retain potentially relevant data—can collide with the GDPR’s core obligations like deletion and data minimisation, creati...
Grok’s training on users’ data has been the subject of regulatory action: agreed with Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) to suspend and delete certain processing of EU/EEA users’ personal data...
executive agreements with individual countries create an expedited, provider-directed route for cross-border access to electronic evidence that can materially shorten MLAT timelines by removing the ne...
historically offered stronger procedural safeguards for VPN providers than many jurisdictions and, in practice, fewer mandatory data-retention rules than several members, but recent proposed changes t...
The EU Entry/Exit System (EES) normally retains biometric data (facial images and fingerprints) for after a traveller’s last recorded entry or exit, with the retention clock renewed on each new crossi...
Since 2015 a patchwork of member states have adopted, amended or attempted laws that touch on and the anonymity of communications—some tightening retention and access rules, others having courts strik...
embeds Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIAs) as a core safeguard for high‑risk AI systems, requiring deployers to identify risks and put in place technical, procedural and governance measures ...
is subject to ordinary preservation and discovery rules: a duty to preserve arises when a party reasonably foresees litigation or an investigation and applies to electronically stored information on p...
and international requirements for clinical trial data disclosure are a patchwork of statutes, binding regulator rules, and voluntary industry and journal commitments: regulators and companies routine...