While some U.S. states have data privacy laws, amongst them California, known to have the strictest privacy law, to date, the United States do not have a federal data protection act. In June this year, a first draft of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) was proposed. The draft bill received bipartisan support and […]
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Amazon Road Transport Spain Fined 2 Million EUR by Spanish Regulator for Requesting Certificates of Good Conduct from Drivers
The Spanish data protection supervisory authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), has issued a fined of 2 million EUR against Amazon Road Transport Spain, S. L., a logistics company that manages deliveries for US-based online-merchant Amazon (see here). Backgound, or: How to Become a Delivery Driver Amazon Road Transport works with formally self-employed […]
Foreign Entities Processing Personal Data in Turkey Must Appoint Representative by End of 2021
The Turkish Law on Personal Data Protection No. 6698 (DPL), which entered into force on April 7, 2016, prescribes that data controllers that are not established in Turkey but process personal data of subjects in Turkey („foreign controllers“) must appoint a data controller representative („representative“). This provision bears resemblance to article 27 of the EU […]
The New California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
Not that long ago, in January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) entered into force. Shortly after that, a proposition was made to amend the CCPA, introducing a new privacy law in California, the CPRA. We reported here. Californians once more voted in favor of a new data protection law on November 3, 2020, […]
Portuguese Data Protection Authority Orders Suspension of Data Transfer to USA
The Portuguese Data Protection Commission (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados – CNPD) has ordered the Portuguese office of national statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estatística – INE) to suspend within 12 hours the transfer of personal data from the Census 2021 survey to the USA or other so-called third countries without an adequate level of […]
German Court Calls Alexa to the Stand
The Regensburg (Bavaria) Regional Court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for manslaughter based on evidence from voice recordings of an Alexa smart speaker. The Case The court found the perpetrator –reportedly a notorious stalker– guilty of manslaughter, as, to the persuasion of the court, the man had killed his ex-girlfriend by […]
New California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Secured Enough Signatures for Ballot
You may have heard of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) which entered into effect at the beginning of this year. You can find more information here. In the state ballot in November 2020, Californians will be asked to decide the fate of another new privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The proposition […]
COVID-19 – New Guidelines on the processing of health data for scientific research
On 21st April 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released new guidelines. As a preliminary remark, the EDPB sees that “there are currently great scientific research efforts in the fight against SARS-CoV-2”, which should lead to research results as soon as possible. At the same time, there are legal questions regarding the processing of […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act, or “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has entered into effect, described by many as a landmark law and, according to the American Bar Association, the most comprehensive privacy legislation to be enacted in the United States of America. The CCPA was passed in 2018 and is aimed at providing consumers with […]
Data Protection Foundation Awards Journalist Prize
The year is coming to an end ever so rapidly – at least it feels like that for many of us. It is also the time of retrospection and of awards for this past year’s achievements. One such award is the Journalist Prize presented each year by Germany’s Data Protection Foundation, a private trust that […]
Swiss Hotel Booking Platform must comply with the GDPR
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ordered a Swiss online hotel booking platform to comply with the requirements set forth in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in particular to provide the information according to Art. 13 GDPR to the data subject. The ordinance was based on the following facts: An Austrian citizen living […]
Hellenic DPA Fines PWC for Unlawful Processing of Employee Data
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority has fined PriceWaterhouseCoopers Business Solutions SA 150,000.00 € for unlawful processing of employee data, after the Authority had conducted an ex officio investigation in response to a complaint. The Authority also ordered a series of corrective measures and gave PWC three months’ time for their implementation. Reportedly, the company had […]
Portuguese Data Protection Authority Imposes 400,000 € Fine on Hospital
The Barreiro Hospital in Portugal was fined 400,000 € by the Portuguese Data Protection Authority CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) for incompliancy with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not separating access rights to patents’ clinical data. The public sector hospital had granted access to patients’ clinical data via their system […]
Online Training Data Protection
Trainings and awareness measures are not only an important step in the implementation of data protection requirements, but, especially for larger organizations, oftentimes a particular challenge. We would like to offer you a guideline in the format of a 15-minute online training. What exactly is it about? In order to meet the statutory training requirement, […]
Japan on Its Way to Data Protection Adequacy?
Data transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area are only legal if –in addition to the requirement of a legal basis or the data subject’s consent– an adequate level of data protection in that country can be guaranteed. One way this can be achieved is an Adequacy Decision of the European Commission. The Commission […]