Privacy

Six bank employees are being charged as members of a criminal ring believed to have netted more than 2.7 million euros in cash and valuables from safe deposit boxes of a branch of National Bank in Thessaloniki over a period of 17 years.

New laws on data protection of online consumers enter into force on May 25th in the European Union, Brussels calls them the new global standard after the scandal with stolen data from Facebook.

The personal details of citizens who make economic contributions of up to 5,000 euros to political parties should remain anonymous, Greece's Data Protection Authority ruled on Monday.

Facebook took out full-page ads in European newspapers April 16 to trumpet tough new EU legislation that promises "more data protection for you," as the company seeks to win back trust following a damaging privacy scandal.

Under fire for the worst privacy debacle in his company's history, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg batted away often-aggressive questioning from lawmakers who accused him of failing to protect the personal information of millions of Americans from Russians intent on upsetting the U.S. election.

Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on March 27, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in nine major British and U.S. newspapers on March 25 to apologize for a huge data privacy scandal.

Facebook said on Jan. 29 that it was publishing its privacy principles for the first time and rolling out educational videos to help users control who has access to their information, as it prepares for the start of a tough new European Union (EU) data protection law.

At a conference organized on the occasion of International Data Protection Day, the commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection warned against the continuation of the long-standing practice of the state activities being largely, almost exclusively, reduced to the activities of the commissioner.

The Bulgarian MEP from GERB / ​​EPP Eva Maydell met the Polish Minister of Digitization Christoph Schubert on Tuesday, December 5 in Brussels, reports 24chasa. 

They discussed the main legislative acts of the European Commission in the field of the Single Digital Market. This was announced by the press office of GERB.