The City of Paris will not be able to sue the drones to monitor social distance any more. In a lawsuit filed by Human Rights League and Quadrature du Net against the city of Paris for its use of drones to monitor social distance, the Conseil d’Etat (State Council, France’s highest administrative court) ruled on […]
The Spanish DPA (AEPD) publishes a report on coronavirus data treatments. The report states that the GDPT explicitly recognizes in its Recital 46 as a legal basis for the legal treatment of personal data in exceptional cases, such as the control of epidemics and their spread, the mission carried out in the public interest (art. […]
On 4 May 2020, the EDPB adopted the Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679, Version 1.0. The Guidelines are based on the WP29 guidelines For more information Francesca Giannoni-Crystal edpb_guidelines_202005_consent_en
EDPB’s Guidelines on the processing of data related to Covid-19 research data. More here
European Parliament publishes a paper on blockchain and the GDPR, titled “The General Data Protection Regulation Can distributed ledgers be squared with European data protection law?” Here is the link to this interesting paper: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2019/634445/EPRS_STU(2019)634445_EN.pdf More information. on GDPR and blockchain, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal
On October 10, 2018, the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD) found the Barreiro Hospital guilty of violating the integrity and confidentiality principle and the data minimization principle set forth by the GDPR. According to this source, the infringements were punished with a fine of €400,000. The hospital is going to fight the fine, this source […]
In September 2018, the French Data Protection Agency, the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) published a report explaining how Blockchain relates to the GDPR (“Report”). In particular the Report highlights the following. WHO IS THE CONTROLLER IN A BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION. Users of the web who decide to submit a transaction to the validation […]