Nel giugno del 2016, l’Autorità per la protezione dei dati personali (di seguito anche DPA) di Amburgo, in accordo con le altre presenti in Germania, si è occupata della compatibilità di Google Analytics con la normativa nazionale sulla protezione dei dati. Le indicazioni che sono emerse dal provvedimento dell’Autorità di Amburgo appaiono a un primo […]
According to the Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) the hearing before the Irish High Court brought by the DPA against Facebook Ireland Ltd and Mr Schrems over EU-US data transfers will possibly take another additional week (or two addition weeks) to conclude. More information on the case is available here. According to the available sources (see […]
Starting on February 7, 2017, the Irish High Court will hear a case brought by the Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) against Facebook Ireland Ltd and Mr Schrems over EU-US data transfers after the Snowden disclosures. After the ECJ invalidated the “Safe Harbor” decision, Facebook performed its data transfer to the US using the “Model Clauses”. Mr. Schrems […]
The Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) opined on the right to be forgotten in companies’ registers: no right to be forgotten there. In case C-393/15, the Corte di Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) asked the ECJ to clarify the right of individuals to be forgotten, to have their […]
Thanking CORDERY, we gladly publish the EU Data Protection – glossary (originally published by Cordery at http://www.corderycompliance.com/eu-data-protection-regulation-glossary/) We’ve put together this glossary to help explain some of the terms used in data protection and in the GDPR. If there’s a term you think we should add let us know. Agencia de Proteccción de Datos = the Spanish […]
On June 13, 2016, Schrem’s website “Europe v Facebook”(website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the United States government asked the Irish High Court to join as amicus curiae in the case between Max Schrems and Facebook. “The US government likely wants to defend its surveillance laws before the European […]
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission officially approved the Privacy Shield, issuing the decision of adequacy (“Decision”). The Privacy Shield is supposed to provide a safe mechanism to transfer personal data from the EU to the US for those organizations that comply with the framework. Compared to the Safe Harbor (which the Privacy Shield […]
On May 25, 2016, Schrem’s website “Europe v Facebook” (website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the Irish Data Protection Commissioner may refer another issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) i.e., according to the website, whether “Facebook can continue to transfer data from the […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
by Jonathan Armstrong, Gayle McFarlane, André Bywater As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view […]
As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view Privacy Shield does not […]