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At its plenary meeting held in October 2017, Working Party 29 (WP29) examined certain critical matters regarding the implementation of Regulation 2016/679, the so called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). WP29 approved the final version of the DPIA guidelines Guidelines on Data Protection Impact Assessment after having examined the comments received during the public consultation which ended […]

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR). Regulation (EU) 2016/679, repeals Directive 95/46/EC and expands on […]

  The Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante per la privacy issued Guidelines for the implementation of Regulation EU/2016/679 on Personal Data Protection (GDPR). The DPA suggests some actions that can be carried out right away to comply with the GDPR and provides a general overview of the major innovations introduced by the legislation. The guidelines […]

In its plenary meeting held in April 2017, Working Party 29 (WP29) examined certain critical matters regarding the implementation of Regulation 2016/679, the s.c. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After having examined the comments received during the public consultation which ended on February 15, 2017 (see here), WP29 adopted the final versions of several guidelines, and […]

What is this all about? The EU is in the process of reforming its existing data protection rules. These reforms have been moving slowly through the EU legislative pipeline but we seem now to be getting closer to a final agreement. Even though the expected implementation date of these rules is still likely to be […]

On June 16, 2016, the French data protection agency (CNIL) opened a consultation on the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The consultation aims at helping the Article 29 Working Party with the guidelines that it is preparing on Data Protection Officers, data portability, Privacy Impact Assessment, and certification. The purpose is to collect concrete questions, […]

  In my talk I will go ahead analyzing the approach of American will provide some elements to understand benefits and risks of cloud computing from an American lawyer’s perspective. I ethics opinions on cloud computing. Then, I will discuss the different implications of privacy law on cloud computing under an American perspective, as opposed to a […]

  In my talk I will provide some elements to understand benefits and risks of cloud computing from an American lawyer’s perspective. I will go ahead analyzing the approach of American ethics opinions on cloud computing. Then, I will discuss the different implications of privacy law on cloud computing under an American perspective, as opposed to […]