Singapore, Japan, Korea among least prepared for new EU data laws
More than half of firms in Singapore, Japan, and South Korea express concerns they will not be able to meet […]
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New European Union Financial Rules to Give U.S. Consumers Protection as Well
Thanks to new set of regulations in the European Union, customers of U.S. financial institutions – banks, credit-card companies and insurance […]
Preparing to Comply with the GDPR: Start Now, Plan to Invest
In May of 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will take effect throughout the European Union. GDPR will set data […]
Privacy watchdog: businesses that demand personal data in return for services run foul of new EU data protection laws
In his opinion on ePrivacy Regulation, European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli indicated that businesses that require consumers to provide data […]
Court to Facebook: Stop harvesting users’ WhatsApp personal data without consent
Facebook has lost its bid to collect the personal data of WhatsApp users in Germany — for now. In August […]
European Commission, experts uneasy over WP29 data portability interpretation
The European Commission has written to EU privacy regulators to express concern over their interpretation of the data portability clause […]
Watchdog queries scope of rules on ‘profiling’ under the GDPR
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has identified an anomaly between the definition of profiling in the GDPR and how profiling […]
Germany: DPAs try and find “common and practical approach” with Standard Data Protection Model
The German Federal and State Commissioners (‘the Commissioners’) released, on 14 April 2017, a Standard Data Protection Model (‘SDP Model’), […]
e-Privacy Regulation; towards stricter rules for online marketing and IoT communications?
The Article 29 Working Party has issued an Opinion on the draft e-privacy regulation proposed by the European Commission on […]
Latest papers on data protection and privacy
Lately data protection and privacy is a hot topic to write about. So here is a collection of latest papers, […]
Commission launches consultation on ENISA
European Commission has launched public consultation on the evaluation and review of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
New GDPR guidelines on consent, profiling, breach notification and data transfers to be issued in 2017
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a consultative body made up of all the national data protection authorities in the EU, in 2017 will issue new guidelines on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).