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Don't overbake fear of EU cookie law

...the law, but it was an ambitious interpretation at best. Now the Article 29 Working Party — a committee comprising the data protection regulators of the... Read more

28 June, 2010 by Struan Robertson

Privacy watchdog probes Facebook facial recognition

...raised in a meeting of the European privacy regulators who form the Article 29 Working Party, but no official action has been initiated, the European... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Location tracking needs permission, says EU group

...of their mobile device, according to an influential European privacy group. The Article 29 Working Party, a group of European privacy authorities, said that geolocation... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Behavioural ads need consent, says Europe privacy group

...behaviour to serve adverts, an influential European privacy group has said. The Article 29 Working Party said in a statement on Thursday that users needed... Read more

25 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

European RFID pact aims to safeguard privacy

Privacy watchdogs and industry bodies have signed up to a European Commission agreement to protect data in devices using RFID technology, commonly used in smartcards Read more

6 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google posed 69 privacy questions by EU

...European Data Protection Directive, and "it follows the guidelines published by the Article 29 Working Party in 2004." The guidelines (PDF) concern "more harmonised information... Read more

20 March, 2012

Google's privacy policy comes under EU probe

...believed it had found a reasonable balance between two recommendations from the Article 29 Working Party, which asked CNIL to undertake the analysis. These recommendations... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Facebook admits tracking problems with cookies

The social-networking company has fixed a problem with persistent cookies that could be used to identify users visiting other websites, and has said it did not use the cookies to track people Read more

28 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Firms shun ICO's free data-protection health check

...direct input into the overhaul of European data protection law through the Article 29 Working Party. Graham told ZDNet UK that the ICO has argued... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook and Google 'must follow' EU privacy rules

Global companies with a footprint in Europe will be subject to new European data privacy laws, according to justice commissioner Viviane Reding Read more

17 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MEPs push for monitoring of internet search

...been found to be inadequately anonymising data. Commission privacy advisory group the Article 29 Working Party said in May that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Bing data retention reduced to six months

...made the change in response to an April 2008 recommendation by the Article 29 Working Party, an influential group of privacy specialists who advise the... Read more

19 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Facebook privacy tweaks are 'unacceptable', says EU

...for applications," Facebook said. "We are happy to continue working with the Article 29 Working Party." Although Facebook is not explicitly an enterprise tool, the... Read more

13 May, 2010 by David Meyer

Microsoft offers to cut search-data retention time

...to pressure from the European Commission's data protection advisory group, the Article 29 Working Party. The group recommended the data-retention cut in April... Read more

9 December, 2008 by Tom Espiner

EU privacy group: Google cookie life still too long

...the reduction of the lifespan of the Google cookie had not assuaged Article 29 Working Party Google privacy concerns. "Compared to the previous lifetime of... Read more

20 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

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