CIPL Submits Comments to the Working Party’s Proposed GDPR DPIA Guidelines
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) at Hunton & Williams recently submitted formal comments to the Article 29 Working […]
Legislation
Italian DPA’s adopts useful decision on legitimate interests
1 June 2017 The Italian data protection authority (‘Garante’) announced, on 25 May 2017, in its monthly newsletter, that it […]
GDPR Matchup: The APEC Privacy Framework and Cross-Border Privacy Rules
This article looks at how Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Cross-Border Privacy Rules system (“CBPR”) matches up against General Data Protection […]
Publishers call for rethink of proposed changes to online privacy laws
An alliance of news publishers has called on European regulators to rethink proposed changes to online privacy laws, arguing that […]
Privacy Shield First Annual Joint Review to Take Place in September 2017
EU Commissioner for Justice, Věra Jourová, in her speech on March 31, announced that the joint review of EU-U.S. Privacy […]
Why Cross-Border Government Requests for Data Will Keep Becoming More Important
As explained in this post, technological developments are driving fundamental changes in the importance of cross-border government requests for data. […]
Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
Lobbyists for Google, Facebook, and other websites are trying to stop the implementation of a proposed law in the US that […]
Bavarian DPA Tests GDPR Implementation of 150 Companies
On May 24, 2017, the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) published a questionnaire to help companies assess their level of […]
ICO: Open banking ‘a key way’ for banks to meet data portability duties under the GDPR
The adoption of open banking could help payment service providers (PSPs) meet their obligations under new EU data protection laws, […]
DLA Piper announces GDPR app
DLA Piper’s has announced its new Explore GDPR mobile app. App was created to make EU General Data Protection Regulation […]
EU could legislate to make it easier to move data between cloud providers
Cloud computing providers could be forced to make it easier for businesses and consumers to move all their data to […]
Data watchdogs called on to clarify organisations duties on consent under GDPR
Data protection authorities have been called on to clarify what organisations need to do to remain compliant when seeking to […]