General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. Read now Regulators in Ireland have proposed up to $42 million in fines for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facebook's lead data protection regulator in the European Union is inching toward making its first decision on a complaint against ...

A data leak of information on approximately 533 million Facebook users – including profile names, mobile numbers and location data – has prompted talk of regulatory action against the social media ...

A formal investigation will aim to establish whether Facebook's handling of the leak constitutes a breach of the GDPR. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

Facebook's latest push to educate users about privacy will be unavoidable. Over the next few weeks, Facebook users outside of Europe will see a notice that walks them through privacy settings and ...

The omnipresent blue-hand is a familiar sight upon even the most cursory of glances around the internet, leaving the door open to web managers being collared by national privacy regulators as being ...