{"id":191722,"date":"2025-06-17T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191722\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:02:11","slug":"europe-fast-tracks-its-big-tech-privacy-cases-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191722\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe fast-tracks its Big Tech privacy cases \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law has a &#8220;one-stop-shop&#8221; mechanism, which puts one national data protection authority in the driver&#8217;s seat for cross-border investigations. In many cases that means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/21\/europe-data-protection-agency-ireland-272889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission<\/a> takes the lead, as it oversees tech giants that are headquartered in the country including Meta, Google, Apple and X. <\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s caution to hit Big Tech with hefty fines has been a source of frustration across Europe for years, and has driven a wedge between Dublin and other European regulators that favor a tougher stance on privacy enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-commission-cooks-up-gdpr-steroids-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2023 proposed the new law<\/a> as a steroids shot to stop big privacy cases from sputtering or stalling.<\/p>\n<p>National government representatives, European Parliament members and Commission officials met in Strasbourg to hammer out the last details on Monday. Two key issues were final sticking points: the length of time that data protection authorities have to wrap up investigations, and the legal remedies if those timelines aren&#8217;t respected.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators agreed on a overall investigation deadline of 15 months, which can be extended by  12 months for the most complex cases, the European Council confirmed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2025\/06\/16\/data-protection-council-and-european-parliament-reach-deal-to-make-cross-border-gdpr-enforcement-work-better-for-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There will also be a new simplified cooperation procedure between national data protection authorities for more straightforward cases, where investigations should be wrapped up within 12 months\u00a0(though it includes a possible extension to give time for national legal procedures).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The law has a &#8220;one-stop-shop&#8221; mechanism, which puts one national data protection authority in the driver&#8217;s seat for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7960,1394,7961,2814,7962,12491,7963,6511,7964,2000,34377,299,5187,678,53219,7965,6512,2443,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-191722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-big-data","9":"tag-big-tech","10":"tag-cross-border","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-data-privacy","13":"tag-data-breaches","14":"tag-data-flows","15":"tag-data-protection","16":"tag-enforcement","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-u-s-privacy-shield","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-marketa-gregorova","23":"tag-platforms","24":"tag-privacy","25":"tag-regulation","26":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698842525761613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}