Sweden’s open society is clashing with EU privacy law, and regulators are frustrated
While the General Data Protection Regulation will this week come into effect across the European Union, some companies in Sweden […]
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GDPR lacks clarity and threatens transatlantic trade
A lack of clarity around how new EU data protection laws apply poses a threat to EU-US trade, the US […]
European Data Protection Board backs ban on ‘cookie walls’
Website and mobile app operators should be barred from requiring consumers to agree to the collection and use of their […]
Data Class Actions: The Era of Mass Data Litigation
Class actions are commonplace in the United States but relatively rare in Europe. The European Union wants to change that, […]
CNIL updates its PIA tool
French data protection authority CNIl has updated its PIA software to make the privacy impact assessment more practical and to […]
An Employee’s Right of Erasure Under the GDPR
GDPR introduces the concept of a “right of erasure” i.e. a ‘right to be forgotten’. Although the concept currently exists […]
Vendors create GDPR compliance solutions to tackle a variety of areas
For all the solutions where their GDPR compliance abilities are an added benefit, however, there are many solutions that were […]
French GDPR Bill Has Been Adopted But Referred to the French Constitutional Council
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on 25 May 2018. In light of the urgency to adapt […]
14 Mistakes Companies Make in Preparation for GDPR
There is a lot of misinformation out there surrounding this topic and it can be easy to just ignore the […]
US News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules
The move by several major news organizations illustrated that some companies would prefer to lose European readers than to risk […]
EDPB starts work and appoints Austria’s DPA as its head
The Chair of the European Data Protection Board, (EDPB), Ms Andrea Jelinek, Head of Austria’s Data Protection Authority, said that […]
How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing
With new and substantial constraints on what had been largely unregulated data-collection practices, marketers will have to find ways to […]