Are GDPR Guidelines Becoming Too Complex?
Last December the European Union’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party issued draft guidance relating to two key aspects of […]
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Incident response plans must be tested
A cyber incident response plan isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if it hasn’t been tested, a Canadian lawyer […]
The DRIP(A) of Watson
Despite Security Minister Ben Wallace’s attempts to downplay it, the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the Watson case continues the […]
‘Responsible Encryption’ Proposal is Nonsensical, Privacy Expert Says
A top Justice Department official wants the tech industry and law enforcement to find common ground on “responsible encryption,” but […]
Three takeaways from CPDP 2018
After five years in privacy, I finally attended my first CPDP this year (it stands for Computers, Privacy & Data […]
Do You Need a Data Protection Officer?
The GDPR explicitly calls out the role of the Data Protection Officer — a security leadership role responsible for managing […]
Thinking Strategically About Brexit and Data Protection
To date, the main legacy of the Brexit referendum of 2016 appears to be a country split in half: some […]
Canada’s DPA publishes position on the Right to be forgotten
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released, on 26 January 2018, its draft position on online reputation, i.e. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The GDPR Handbook for Concerned Marketers
Vacations are over, everybody’s realizing May 25th 2018 is closer, so we should get this GDPR show back on track. […]