Europe threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US

If regulators have their way, data transfers from Facebook and Instagram between Europe and the United States could stop this summer. WhatsApp, another Meta service, will not be affected by the decision as it has a different data controller within Meta. This could force Meta, Facebooks parent...

Twitter fined $150M after using 2FA phone numbers for marketing

The Federal Trade Commission FTC and the Department of Justice DOJ have ordered Twitter to pay a $150M penalty for using users account security data deceptively. The deception violates an FTC order from 2011, that bars Twitter from "misleading consumers about the extent to which it protects the...

What you need to know: Navigating EU Data Protection changes – EU-US Privacy Shield and EU General Data Protection Regulation

If youre an organization with trans-Atlantic presence that transmits and stores European citizen data e.g. employee payroll & HR data, client & prospect data in the U.S. you will want to pay attention. What we will discuss was administered under the European Unions Data Protection Directive and a...