It is "imperative" that the tech platforms are held to a level of responsibility that reflects both their financial dominance and the detrimental effect that this dominance has on other sectors such as the news media sector, the News...

Associations representing more than 4,000 publishers across the globe including the News Media Association have accused Google of “effectively putting a gun against publishers’ heads” with its proposed framework for the new data protection regime. In a joint statement on...

Members of the House of Lords have backed down on their campaign to use the Data Protection Bill as a platform to enact a sweeping Leveson 2-style inquiry into the media, allowing the Bill to receive Royal Assent yesterday...

News media publishers across the globe have called on Google to respond to a letter sent to chief executive Sundar Pichai more than three weeks ago expressing profound concerns over its proposed framework for the new data protection regime. Google...

The ICO has now published its final guidance on consent under GDPR. This follows the guidance issued by the European Group of Data Protection Authorities, the Article 29 Working Party.

US and European publishers have written to Google to express profound concerns over its proposed framework for the new data protection regime which would “undermine the fundamental purposes of the GDPR and the efforts of publishers to comply with...

Speaking earlier in the week at the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill in the House of Common MPs from across the political spectrum called for clauses 168 and 169 to be scrapped highlighting how they were to...

Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield has warned that local newspapers will close if MPs do not overturn the Section 40-style clause in the Data Protection Bill when it comes before the House of Commons.   Writing in the Yorkshire Post,...