UK to fine critical organizations up to $24M if they fail to put in strong cyber security
As companies gear up to make themselves complaint with upcoming data protection regulations in Europe around GDPR, those doing business […]
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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 […]
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 […]
What does ePrivacy look like under new presidency?
Bulgaria took over the rolling presidency of the EU on Jan. 1, and, although an overly ambitious May deadline has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]