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Germany We have waited a long time for this and now here it is – the decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) in relation to the so-called “Planet 49” case. The origin of the case was a dispute raised by the German Federal Association of Consumer Advice…

The GDPR fines tracker was initially created as an in-house tool to aid the research proces because our writers had found it difficult to get accurate breakdowns of statistics that could be used within articles. We quickly decided that turning the tool into a referencable page would not only speed…

Okay, this won’t be a musical but will be an entertaining discussion on how and why you should keep Records of Processing Activities as per Article 30 of the GDPR. Did you know that every organisation should be keeping RoPA – the exception is not a blanket one? If this…

Brussels, BE — Today, Access Now releases a report which finds critical flaws in the enforcement of the EU flagship data protection law. Two years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, official data show that Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), crippled by a lack of resources, tight…

22nd May 2020 The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today submitted a draft decision to other concerned Supervisory Authorities, in accordance with Article 60 of the GDPR, in relation to an inquiry it has completed into Twitter International Company, a data controller based in Ireland. This own-volition inquiry was…

The European Data Protection Board, the EU’s umbrella organisation overseeing the application of EU data protection rules across the bloc, has voiced its concern over the suspension of EU data protection rights in Hungary. In early May, the Hungarian government put forward plans to suspend obligations to a number of…

As Ireland’s data protection authority was closing in late last year on its first major penalty against Facebook over alleged privacy abuses, the agency — a key global enforcer of data protection rules — reshuffled its top team, replacing a senior official in charge of its most high-profile cases. Dale…

Cookie banners are increasingly prevalent on internet sites. A section about cookies may appear in privacy policies and, sometimes, even an entire policy is devoted exclusively to them. But what is a “cookie”? Also known as “HTTP cookies”, “browser cookies” or “web cookies”, a cookie is a small piece of…

Last year, I had the privilege of chairing and moderating a panel of data protection/privacy lawyers speaking on European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) developments at the Ontario Bar Association’s (OBA) “Privacy Law Summit”. The Privacy Law Summit is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) conference organized annually by the Privacy and…

14th May 2020 Data controllers in both the private and public sector issue and receive large volumes of email correspondence on a daily basis. While email is a valued and effective communication tool, it can be the source of a number of common data protection breaches. Typically, most data breaches…