The authors highlight the main innovations brought by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”) to Directive 95/46/EC. The full text is available at http://www.whitecase.com…
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 July 22, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released Opinion 5/2016 on the review of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC). This Opinion focuses on the issues specifically requested by the EU Commission. Particularly, the EDPS suggested that “a new proposal on ePrivacy should guarantee confidentiality of communications, offer clarity and complement the General Data […]
On June 24, 2016, the British Information Commissioner Officer (ICO), issued a press release in consideration of the recent referendum results. “The Data Protection Act remains the law of the land irrespective of the referendum result. If the UK is not part of the EU, then upcoming EU reforms to data protection law would not […]
The author discusses the possible consequences that the UK decision to exit the EU will have for businesses with reference to the application of the GDPR. The full text is available at http://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.com…
The report consists of three papers and one executive summary. The Report spells our the “the legal impacts of withdrawal” in the Executive summary and in paper I. The Report also discusses the consequences of Brexit on data protection: We consider, were the UK to remain in the EU, that the new General Data Protection […]
On May 30, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – whose mission is to advise the EU institutions on the data protection implications of their policies — published Opinion 4/2016 on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision. According to the press release the Privacy Shield as it stands is not robust enough to withstand future […]
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Francesca Giannoni-Crystal & Allyson Haynes Stuart have just published in the Information law Journal an article dealing with privacy and data protection in the IoT. The article deals with recent developments in the IoT sector, highlights the difficulty of giving a definition of the IoT, and discuss the most important authorities (on the two side of the Atlantic) […]
Read about the privacy challenges of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) (or Internet of Everything) and the EU specific data protection issues in a few slides. Here: EU data protection issues in IoT For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal.
The Bundeskartellamt (the German AntitrustAuthority) initiated a proceeding against Facebook Inc., USA (the Irish sub sidiary of the company) and Facebook Germany GmbH, Hamburg on allegations that the tech giant abused its dominant position in the social market networks market by way of imposing certain terms of service on the use of data. The Antitrust […]