Four lessons NHS Trusts can learn from the Royal Free case
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust did not comply with the Data […]
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Compensation for Breach of the General Data Protection Regulation
This paper looks at Article 82(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) providing data subjects with rights to compensation […]
New Data Protection Enforcement Provisions Take Effect in Russia
On July 1, 2017, a new law took effect in Russia allowing for administrative enforcement actions and higher fines for […]
Could Canada lose its adequacy standing?
The world has changed a lot since the European Commission gave Canada its “adequacy” standing in 2001, determining the Personal […]
Preparation for the GDPR underway in Poland
The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs published at the end of March a partial draft of the new act on […]
Let’s sort out this profiling and consent debate once and for all.
In a post last week , I said that “ There’s a perpetuated misconception that all profiling needs consent. It […]
EU privacy seal providers eagerly await official GDPR guidance
There should ideally be a pan-European accreditation for “privacy seal” providers when the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect, […]
Belgian DPA publishes recommendation on GDPR record keeping obligation
End of last week, the Belgian Data Protection Authority published a recommendation on the records of processing activities. The full […]
Auto industry must prepare for 2018 data protection changes
The automotive industry must start planning and preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on […]
Surveillance cameras and GDPR
I have frequently said that technology advances at the speed of light – 0 to 60 in a flash! Well it […]
The case of the unsolicited email
Privacy and data protection issues do not present themselves in any particular order, so when starting out as a data […]
Oversight of use of open source code crucial as GDPR approaches
Organisations should take steps to improve their oversight of the use of open source code in software deployed within their […]