Commission releases extensive GDPR guidance
The European Commission has released a new web site with extensive guidance on GDPR implementation for just about every stakeholder: […]
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New DSAR tool for GDPR compliance
According to the IAPP-EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2017, DSARs were among the top three most difficult GDPR obligations for […]
The Looming Battle over the GDPR and the Purpose of Whois in ICANN
ICANN Corp seems to have finally taken the tension between Whois and privacy rights seriously, thanks to the impending General […]
Facebook to hand privacy controls to users ahead of EU law
Facebook will make it easier for its more than 2 billion users to manage their own data in response to […]
CNIL updates its PIA software
The CNIL – French data protection authority – published a new beta version of its open source PIA software. Several […]
GDPR Conundrums: The GDPR applicability regime – Controllers
The scope provisions of the national GDPR implementation laws wildly differ and will lead to unacceptable accumulation and incompatibility of […]
Facebook begins privacy push ahead of tough new European law
Facebook will introduce a new privacy center this year that features all core privacy settings in one place, ahead of […]
How do the DPO and EU representative interplay?
The GDPR applies to controllers and processors that process personal data of individuals in the EU, regardless of where the […]
Why should a data protection officer be global?
The General Data Protection Regulation introduces a general EU-wide obligation to appoint a formal data protection officers. This role is […]
What does territorial scope mean under the GDPR?
Determining an organization’s applicability under the General Data Protection Regulation is a complex topic, and many are left a bit […]
Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules
A stringent set of data protection rules will take effect in Europe in May. Facebook, Google and others are working […]
French GDPR Implementation Bill – for French DPA (“CNIL”) it could not come soon enough!
Member States are slowly but surely debating implementing legislation in order to transpose the GDPR into national law, in accordance […]