Belgian DPA publishes recommendation on GDPR record keeping obligation
Belgian Data Protection Authority has published a recommendation on the records of processing activities. It aims to assist controllers and processors […]
Legislation
Data protection in Africa: where do we stand one year before GDPR
Albeit essentially a European statute, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be applicable as of May, 25th […]
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 […]
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 […]