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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
ICO will take proportionate approach to GDPR fines
The ICO is not planning to issue fines in every circumstance when it detects a breach of the GDPR (or […]
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 […]
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. […]