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On March 12, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion defining the GDPR’s scope of application and providing an interpretation on data protection authorities’ competences, tasks and powers. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) requested the EDPB to examine and issue an opinion on the interplay between the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) and […]

On March 14, 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, DPA) published on Netherlands Official Gazette its own General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fining policy. It is the first European Union (EU) country to do so. Article 83, GDPR, provides that DPAs can issue to controllers and processors “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” administrative fines […]

  On January 10, 2019, the Italian Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, the Italian data protection authority, DPA, released an opinion according to which the deceased continues to enjoy the protections provided for by the data protection legislation. In a case of alleged malpractice, an individual asked a healthcare company to allow access […]

On February 2, 2019, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) published a Survey on Device Fingerprinting. (“Survey“) “Device fingerprinting is the systematic gathering of information on a specific remote device with the aim of identifying, singling out and, thus being able to monitor its user’s activity for the purpose of profiling.” The data set extracted […]

  On February 28, 2019, Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly passed the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). According to this source, the PDPA will be signed and endorsed by the monarch, and will then be published in the Government Gazette before to enter into force later this year. This article explains that the legislative text includes […]

  On February 12, 2019, Law no. 12/2019, converting into law the so called Decreto Semplificazioni (“Simplification Decree”), Legislative Decree No. 135/2018 was published on the Italian Official Gazette no. 36/2019. Among other provisions, the Simplification Decree defines the concept of “technologies based on distributed ledgers (blockchain)” and “smart contracts”. “Technologies based on distributed ledgers” are technologies and […]

On February 12, 2019 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) warned that in the absence of an agreement between the EEA and the UK (no-deal Brexit), the UK will become a third country from 00.00 am CET on 30 March 2019. The EDPB provides 5 steps organizations that transfer data to the UK should take […]

  On January 25, 2015, the European Commission released a statement with an update about the effects of the adoption of Regulation 2016/679/EU (GDPR). See: Joint Statement by First Vice-President Timmermans, Vice-President Ansip, Commissioners Jourová and Gabriel ahead of Data Protection Day Since its entry into force on May 25, 2018, “citizens have become more […]

On December 20, 2018, the new European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and the BEREC Regulation entered into force. The EECC represents a major reform of the European telecom regulatory framework. The BEREC Regulation is an associated regulation concerning the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). They are both part of the Digital Single […]

  On December 28, 2018, the French Data Protection Agency, the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) published several principles to help companies comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while transferring personal data to their commercial partners for electronic prospecting. Particularly, the CNIL highlights how: the data subject must give consent before […]