The Looming Battle over the GDPR and the Purpose of Whois in ICANN
ICANN Corp seems to have finally taken the tension between Whois and privacy rights seriously, thanks to the impending General […]
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UK to fine critical organizations up to $24M if they fail to put in strong cyber security
As companies gear up to make themselves complaint with upcoming data protection regulations in Europe around GDPR, those doing business […]
Facebook to hand privacy controls to users ahead of EU law
Facebook will make it easier for its more than 2 billion users to manage their own data in response to […]
GDPR Conundrums: The GDPR applicability regime – Controllers
The scope provisions of the national GDPR implementation laws wildly differ and will lead to unacceptable accumulation and incompatibility of […]
Facebook begins privacy push ahead of tough new European law
Facebook will introduce a new privacy center this year that features all core privacy settings in one place, ahead of […]
What does ePrivacy look like under new presidency?
Bulgaria took over the rolling presidency of the EU on Jan. 1, and, although an overly ambitious May deadline has […]
How do the DPO and EU representative interplay?
The GDPR applies to controllers and processors that process personal data of individuals in the EU, regardless of where the […]
Are exam answers personal data?
In December 2017 the Second Chamber of the Court of Justice reached a decision in the well-known case of Peter […]
Why should a data protection officer be global?
The General Data Protection Regulation introduces a general EU-wide obligation to appoint a formal data protection officers. This role is […]
Right to oblivion and indexing of non-EU websites
Google privacy saga concerning right to oblivion continues with the measure of Italian Persona Data Protection Authority n. 557 dated […]
What does territorial scope mean under the GDPR?
Determining an organization’s applicability under the General Data Protection Regulation is a complex topic, and many are left a bit […]
Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules
A stringent set of data protection rules will take effect in Europe in May. Facebook, Google and others are working […]