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 […]
Legislation
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 […]
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 […]
WP29 releases extensive employee-privacy guidance
In further production from the group’s June plenary session , the EU’s Article 29 Working Party, the collection of data […]
The great unsolved data protection challenges of our time (at least for now)
Far from the heady statements made at the time that the draft GDPR was first proposed, that we would soon […]
Rhode Island highway surveillance bill raises privacy concerns
Rhode Island Senate debtes a bill that calls for the installation of a system on area highways that would scan license […]