The Article 29 Working Party has released opinions on Privacy Shield and “essential guarantees” under EU law relating to surveillance, here and here. Please join us in our webinar at 1 pm EDT today to learn more about the Article 29 Working Party’s opinion on Privacy Shield (register here). We will look at the opinion’s likely… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to EDPS RSS Feed(So) What if there’s no Safe Harbor 2.0?
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Legislation, Privacy Regulation, Safe HarborThere’s no doubt businesses in the EU and US would breathe a sigh of relief if a new Safe Harbor agreement is put in place between before European data protection authorities start prosecuting companies for potentially illegal personal data transfers to the US. But if it doesn’t happen, the US is actually not any worse… Continue Reading
The EU Commission’s spin on the new General Data Protection Regulation
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Events and Webinars, Safe Harbor, UncategorizedThe European Union Commission has issued a fact sheet on the new General Data Protection Regulation (final post-trilogue text available via Statewatch). The Commission claims that the Regulation is good for individuals and good for business. We’ll leave that to readers . . . and history . . . .to decide. As regulations go, the… Continue Reading
Key EU Parliamentary Committee Votes to Adopt the General Data Protection Regulation
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European UnionAs expected, the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (also known as LIBE) voted today to adopt the new General Data Protection Regulation (see the summary we provided yesterday here). A LIBE press release announced the vote with the proclamation “New EU rules on data protection put the citizen back in the driving seat.” The vote was… Continue Reading
The General Data Protection Regulation in Bullet Points
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Safe Harbor, Security, Social MediaUpdated at 8:50 pm GMT on 16 December 2015. The new General Data Protection Regulation is effectively a “done deal” following the final trilogue meeting on December 15. One might assume based on UK media coverage that the biggest change in EU privacy law is that kids under 16 will need their parent’s consent to… Continue Reading
Thinking Big about Data – the new EDPS Ethics Board
Posted in EDPS, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy RegulationGiovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), recently announced the formation of a new external Ethics Board that will do a deep dive into the complex ethical issues that surround the use of personal data in the “big data” economy. (See press release and full opinion links here.) The EDPS is particularly concerned… Continue Reading
