European Commission fined for breaking GDPR EU General Court levies fine for failing to protect EU data A German citizen was paid 400 euros The European Commission has been forced to pay a 400 euro ($412) fine to a German citizen for breaking its own data protection regulations.

Lawmakers of the Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, LIBE, will tomorrow hear four candidates that are hoping to become the next European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – the privacy watchdog of the EU institutions.

Human Rights Watch joined 170 other human rights and environmental organizations and trade unions calling on the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen to actively protect the European Union’s existing corporate accountability laws.

There are growing questions about how the EU is going to enforce tech regulation, particularly as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

The EU General Court has ruled against the European Commission for failing to comply with its own GDPR data protection regulations.

The European Commission requested the 27 EU members on Wednesday to conduct a 15-month risk assessment of outbound investments in semiconductor, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies, which could lead to measures to protect EU economic security.

The European Commission’s new chief competition enforcer pushed back against concerns that the regulator might weaken its efforts to curb Big Tech companies in the bloc ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

The expanded probe by the European Commission, announced on Friday, requires X to hand over internal documents regarding its recommendation algorithm. The Commission also issued a “retention order” for all relevant documents relating to how the algorithm could be amended in future.

The EU court said the bloc's executive authority violated a citizen's rights by transferring some of his personal data to the U.S. without proper safeguards.

On Friday, the European Commission announced it was both taking its investigation into X further and modernizing its free trade agreement with Mexico, anticipating the new US administration's possible tariff hikes.

VATICAN— The Vatican City State’s first decree regulating the use of artificial intelligence quietly came into effect this month prohibiting