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Matthias Scholz

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28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

Cookies are plainly on the radar of European regulators. Various countries have issued new guidance recently and European regulators have started to enforce the new rules as can be seen from the increasing number of inspections, audits and online investigations into the use of cookies.Despite the fact that the 2009 EU Cookies Directive was intended to harmonise the European approach to cookies regulation, we are a long way away from a uniform cookies regulation across…