Clamping Down On Email Panels: A GDPR Advisory
Warning to firms that monitor inboxes and aggregate data about message performance for customers: you could run afoul of the […]
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Explaining the GDPR to an American
U.S. consumer privacy law, in large part, relies on notice and consent, which is, in turn, enforced by the unfair […]
Dutch companies not ready for GDPR despite approaching deadline
Companies in the Netherlands are only partly ready for the country’s version of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]
Italian DPA’s decision on digital signage “correctly balances parties’ interests”
The Italian data protection authority (‘the Garante’) announced, on 26 January 2018, that it had issued a decision on digital […]
Data Privacy Day: Reflections on five years in the privacy profession
This Data Privacy Day — Jan. 28 — marks my fifth year in the privacy profession. While five years in […]
Only Four In Ten Firms Are Ready For GDPR
Senzing has found in a survey that 60% of European companies are not GDPR-ready. Spain and France are particularly concerned. […]
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 […]
CNIL updates its PIA software
The CNIL – French data protection authority – published a new beta version of its open source PIA software. Several […]
Why the Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s Proposed Right to be Forgotten Creates More Problems Than it Solves
The right to be forgotten, which opens the door to public requests for the removal of search results that are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Clock Ticking, European Commission Launches GDPR Implementation Guidance Website
With only four months remaining until the EU General Data Protection Regulation takes effect on May 25, 2018, the European […]