National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released best practice guidelines for vehicle cybersecurity. Guidelines are aimed to car makers and their purpose is to help improve car security. However, 22 pages document is non-binding – there’s no regulatory imperative requiring that car makers meet these standards. Full article and guidelines
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
On September 23 the European Data Protection Supervisor (the “EDPS”) Giovanni Buttarelli published his opinion “Coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data”. This opinion is part of an ongoing project, launched in March 2014 with the EDPS’ “Preliminary Opinion on Privacy and Competitiveness in the Age of Big Data”.It addresses the concern […]
Michel Reymond has published a paper “Hammering Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Geographical Scope of Application of the EU Right to Be Delisted” where he explores the extraterritorial effects of the decision of Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) in so called Google Spain case. In that case CJEU recognized “right to be forgotten” or, according Michel […]
Hunton & Williams has published chapters of the third edition of the book The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2016. The guide is comprehensive worldwide legal analysis of the laws and regulations relating to data protection. Published chapters include review of new EU General data protection regulation, as well as laws of Belgium, China, France, Germany, United […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hot topic – AI software AlphaGo in March defeated the world champion in Goand game such making a mark in AI history. There is no doubt that AI will change industries and our jobs – including finances. So Baker and McKenzie in their recent survey report “Ghosts in the Machine: Artificial intelligence, risks and […]
It is still uncertain when and whether at all EU-U.S. Privacy Shield will be adopted and enter into force. In mean time, Bloomberg BNA has prepared and published a white paper which examines “the challenges that U.S. and EU regulators encountered in reaching the Privacy Shield agreement, the additional privacy protections companies will be required to […]
Gowling WLG recently published whitepaper “Are you data driven?” on autonomous and connected vehicles. It was prepared for UK Autodrive – leading technology and automotive businesses consortium – and explores how data protection issues – particularly the newly published General Data Protection Regulation – will affect innovation in autonomous and connected vehicles sector.