European Commission Fined For Violating Its Own Data Protection Rules; Also Found To Have Used Privacy-Violating Ads

Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important piece of data protection law around. GDPR stories are often about big, bad companies failing to respect the legislation, but there’s a small but amusing group of incidents in which the EU itself has been caught violating its own privacy laws.