Moderating IDTC Summit’s breakout session
I am going to moderate International Data Transfers & Compliance Summit's breakout session: Data transfers to third countries.
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10 GDPR fines and what to learn from them
10 biggest and most interesting GDPR fines and what can we learn from them to ensure better data protection compliance.
Data Protection Day 2020
Data Protection Day is celebrated each year on 28 January. It's good opportunity to look at privacy landscape and its further development.
Facebook users drop in Europe. What is the takeaway?
Facebook’s users dropped in Europe and US Recently Facebook published latest (Q3) user and revenue update, having the overall users base drop (in Europe and US, mainly). While the drop of users, when compared to total numbers, is small, it is strong signal that users in Europe are not happy with some of Facebook’s practices. […]
CJEU restricts rights to resell back-up copies of software
EU court restricts re-sell of software back-up copies in case original is damaged.
ICO publishes guidance on privacy notices under GDPR
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on privacy notices under EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR introduces new requirements for controllers on notifying data subjects about processing of their data. GDPR requires privacy notices to be understandable and accessible. ICO’s guidance provides best practice on communicating privacy information to individuals. Access guidance
World’s biggest Internet hub sues German government over surveillance
On September 9, 2016, the operator of the world’s largest Internet hub, De-Cix, filed lawsuit against the German government to stop mass surveillance by the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). De-CIX is challenging the legality of orders from the BND to implement monitoring of communications flowing through its Frankfurt Internet exchange point. De-CIX insists that […]
UK government breached personal data security 9,000 times in a year, watchdog reveals
UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) has found that government has breached personal data security nearly 9,000 times in a year. Most of breaches – about 6,000 – are on HMRC. NAO found that 17 largest departments recorded 8,995 data breaches in years 2014-2015, but reported to the Information Commissioner (ICO) only 14 incidents. Although not […]
Facebook’s privacy case referred to European Court of Justice
There is a new developments in a privacy case brought by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook. Facebook has questioned the right of Schrems to bring a Europe-wide class action. Now, Austria’s Supreme Court referred the question to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). Read full story