Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ Last Friday, the European Commission and the United States announced that they had agreed on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework agreement that addresses the EU Court of Justice’s (Schrems II) judgement on safe and secure data transfer. As a result of the new framework, it is now possible to: …

Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ The Belgian data protection authorities fined a bank 75k Euro because its internal data protection officer was also the director of three divisions with decision-making responsibilities over the processing of personal data. The supervisory authority resulted in a conflict of interest, which violated GDPR Article 38(6). According to the GDPR…

Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ This week, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €17M following an inquiry into 12 different data breaches over six months (June and December 2018). According to the commission, Facebook has breached the EU data privacy laws and failed to have appropriate organisational and technical measures that would enable it…

Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ It was an eventful week for data privacy with new proposals, GDPR fines, and court rulings. The privacy concerns for users seem to be rising with governments increasingly tightening regulations for companies. This week, noyb started the second round against deceptive cookie banners and sent a total of 270 drafts…

Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ This week is insightful as the recent research revealed that the European Union data protection authorities had issued a total of $1.2 billion in fines for violations of the GDPR. The fines for breaches of the European Union’s landmark privacy law have increased nearly sevenfold over the last year and…

Personal data protection is a critical necessity, and we must be aware of what the New Data Privacy Compliance Framework is likely to be and what industry preparedness is required to survive in the continuously changing data regulatory regime. Seers has organised a free webinar on 17th March 2022, to…

Week‌ ‌In‌ ‌Review‌ This week is exciting as Seers has released new features for consent management, enabling our customers to meet the legal requirements for GDPR, CNIL, CCPA, and ePrivacy compliance. The new cookie banner features allow website owners to automate compliance and increase website accessibility with more excellent acceptance rates. What’s new…

At Seers, we are constantly enhancing our CMP and adding valuable features to help organisations effortlessly harmonise their privacy and consent management with legal obligations. The new features allow website owners to automate compliance and increase website accessibility with excellent acceptance rates. Here are our top updates in the cookie…

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, is a global group of accessibility professionals working to make the internet more accessible. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related resources with input from people and organisations worldwide. What Is WCAG? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are…