Will companies need to identify new lead supervisory authorities for their UK BCRs?
On Jan. 9, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers published a “Notice to Stakeholders” on the intersection of […]
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How Belgium is gearing up for GDPR
With the EU General Data Protection Regulation coming into force in just over 100 days, both private companies and public […]
UK’s DPA updates guidance on lawful basis for processing
The requirement to have a lawful basis in order to process personal data is not new. It replaces and mirrors […]
Canada’s privacy watchdog to educate kids on data protection
Canada’s privacy watchdog is launching a campaign aimed at raising grade schoolers’ awareness about how their personal data is collected […]
UK minister attempts to clarify data protection plans after watchdog’s concerns
Concerns that proposed new UK data protection laws threaten the independence of the country’s data protection watchdog are “misplaced”, a […]
Belgium Adopts Law Reforming the Belgian Privacy Commission
On January 10, 2018, the Law of 3 December 2017 creating the Data Protection Authority (the “Law”) was published in […]
Dutch plans to implement new payments laws raise data protection concerns
The government in the Netherlands has been advised to review the way it intends to implement new EU payment services […]
UK’s DPA fines firms behind millions of nuisance calls, spam emails and SMS
Four companies that disrupted people with nuisance marketing have been fined a total of £600,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office. […]
Argentina’s new data protection controlling authority
Since 2001, the National Directorate of Data Protection has been tasked with being the controlling authority of the Data Protection […]
Carphone Warehouse fined for ‘striking’ number of failures that led to data breach
Information Commissioner’s Office fines company £400,000 for ‘concerning’ security issues following investigation of hack of 3m customers’ data. Source: Carphone […]
Fines under GDPR wait for businesses that fail to fix known security flaws now, says UK watchdog
Data breaches that arise after new EU data protection laws take effect but which stem from security flaws that were […]
FTC, OPC, PCPD collaborate on connected-toy enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission has settled its first enforcement action involving the privacy and data security of connected toys. On […]