Giovanni 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
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EU Data Protection Regulation – Did you know there’s an app for that?
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, LegislationAs EU data protection watchers know, the draft General Data Protection Regulation (which has been around long enough to be universally referred to by its acronym, GDPR) exists in three major versions, with a fourth version recently released by the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The EDPS is the EU’s own internal… Continue Reading
Privacy Monday – May 4, 2015: Shaping Up — Update on the EU’s Draft General Data Protection Regulation
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Events and Webinars, UncategorizedOn this Privacy Monday, we can definitely say that the long winter of our discontent (at least for some of our readers) is over. Happy spring! In case you missed it, last Wednesday we presented the fourth in our Wednesday Webinar series on the progress of the EU draft Data Protection Regulation and what we… Continue Reading
Who’s your role model for EU privacy notices? The latest Google Undertaking
Posted in European Union, Mobile Privacy, Online Advertising, UncategorizedWhen small and mid-size companies start expanding their apps or web presence into Europe, they need to start thinking about EU data protection laws. It’s tempting to take a look at what one or two of the “big guys” do about EU data protection compliance and think that whatever the big guys do in Europe… Continue Reading
EU sets sights on Google.com search results
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Social MediaWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) The highly influential Article 29 Working Party, composed in part of representatives of the EU’s national data protection offices, has announced that the right to be forgotten applies to .com as well as country-specific search results. The Google Spain decision (discussed here) held that… Continue Reading
No news doesn’t mean it’s gone away: Timing Update for the EU Data Protection Regulation
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, UncategorizedWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) With no major legislative milestones since the March 2014 EU Parliamentary vote endorsing the LIBE draft of the new Data Protection Legislation, observers from outside the EU might understandably wonder whether the legislative process has derailed somehow. But it hasn’t – the train has… Continue Reading
The latest thinking from Europe (while we are waiting for the Regulation)
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, European Union, Privacy RegulationWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) Privacy practitioners from the US and Europe gathered in London on April 30 and May 1 to discuss current thinking about privacy policy, regulation and compliance at the IAPP’s European Data Protection Intensive conference. In the background to the current discussions, of course, we… Continue Reading
New Timeline for Adoption of Definitive EU Data Protection Regulation
Posted in European Union, Legislation, Privacy RegulationWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) The European Commission announced yesterday that it is working towards a revised timeline for the adoption of a definitive Data Protection Regulation by the end of 2014. While Commissioner Viviane Reding’s press release about finalizing the Regulation by the end of 2014 has been… Continue Reading
Key EU Parliament Committee Endorses Revised Draft of Data Protection Regulation
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, European Union, LegislationWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) As widely expected, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted today in favor of a revised, even tougher draft of the Data Protection Regulation that will (if finally adopted) replace the EU’s current laws regarding the collection and… Continue Reading
