DPAs react to the CJEU’s decision on Safe Harbor
Since the CJEU’s decision of 6 October 2015 revoking the EU/US Safe Harbor program, Safe Harbor continues to make the headlines and there are new legal developments each day. This blog post summarizes...
View ArticleGetting to know the GDPR, Part 4 – “Souped-up” individual rights.
A key area of proposed change under the General data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“) relates to individual rights. The proposal is both to refresh individuals’ existing rights, by clarifying and...
View ArticleGetting to know the GDPR, Part 5: Your big data analytics and profiling...
What does the law require today? Currently, there is no legal definition of ‘profiling’ under European data protection law. The Directive 95/46/EC refers to ‘automated individual decisions’ without...
View ArticleEurope’s first ever EU-wide cyber-security rules “agreed”
On 7 December 2015 a European Parliament press release reported that EU MEPs had closed a deal with the European Council on the first ever EU rules on cyber-security. Though we’re yet to see the full...
View ArticleEU proposes new consumer rights for the return of data exchanged for digital...
We’ve previously commented in some depth on the EU’s Digital Single Market proposals, most of which are currently out to consultation. The European Commission today set out new plans for two proposals...
View ArticleThe Directive is Dead (Almost)! Long live the GDPR!
It’s here: after years and years of debate, the negotiating parties to the trilogue are reported finally to have agreed the text of the European Union’s successor privacy legislation: the General Data...
View ArticleGetting to know the General Data Protection Regulation, Part 6 – Designing...
Introduction One of the changes due to be implemented under the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is the explicit recognition of the concepts of ‘privacy by design’ and ‘privacy by...
View ArticleThe slow but inexorable fall of Safe Harbor
Recently, my colleague Phil Lee posted an obituary on Safe Harbor. The article was funny, a touch provocative, but especially well grounded. As we reach towards the end of January, never has the fate...
View ArticleNIS Directive establishes first EU-wide cyber security rules
In December 2015 the EU institutions came to an agreement on the Network and Information Security Directive (‘NIS Directive’), establishing a set of EU-wide rules on cyber security for the first time;...
View ArticleFrance to adopt GDPR provisions before it comes into force in 2018
France is getting ahead of the final adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and is expected to adopt this year several provisions of the GDPR before it comes into force in 2018....
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