CNIL Updates Privacy Seals on Governance Procedures and Training Programs to Comply with GDPR
On September 20, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) announced that it has updated two standards on privacy seals […]
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Regulating for Results: Strategies and Priorities for Leadership and Engagement
On September 25, 2017, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP issued a discussion paper […]
CNIL Launches Public Consultation on Transparency and International Data Transfers under the GDPR
On September 19, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) launched an online public consultation on two topics identified by […]
The Spanish DPA confirms compliance of Google Cloud commitments for international data flows
Google is pleased to announce that the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“Agencia Española de Protección de Datos” or “AEPD”) has […]
GDPR: setting the record straight on data breach reporting
Misleading press stories have claimed that all breaches will need to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office and customers […]
UK DPA advises businesses to review their data processing contracts
Businesses have been advised to review their existing data processing contracts to ensure that they comply with new EU data […]
Spanish DPA’s decision fining Facebook “first to go into detail of massive scale processing”
14 September 2017 The Spanish data protection authority (‘AEPD’) announced, on 11 September 2017, that it had issued a decision […]
Is your customers’ data protected from your employees?
Access by employees to customers’ data has to be subject to stringent privacy restrictions and limitations according to a decision […]
Here’s Why Facebook Got a $1.4 Million Privacy Fine in Spain
Facebook made three serious or very serious privacy violations under Spanish law, the country’s regulator said as it fined the […]
Businesses can obtain a ‘competitive advantage’ if they ‘get data protection right’
Businesses can obtain a “competitive advantage” if they “get data protection right”, a senior official at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s […]
E-mail Marketing at Your Peril
You may not have noticed it, but despite all of the distractions caused by Brexit and the General Data Protection […]
Consent is not the ‘silver bullet’ for GDPR compliance
So let’s be clear. Consent is one way to comply with the GDPR, but it’s not the only way. Source: […]