The Spanish Association of Football Clubs, „La Liga“ has been the first organization to receive an exemplary fine for non-compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Spain. The mobile application, subject to the complaint and subsequent fine, used the users‘ microphones and their GPS location in order to capture illegal transmissions of football […]
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Annual Report of the Finish Data Protection Authority
The Finnish data protection authority (the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman) has recently published its annual reports on May 17th 2019.[1] This short article summarizes the most interesting fact regarding the English summary report. Major Focus Points of the Finnish Data Protection Authority The authority plans to focus until 2020 on the data subject’s […]
GUIDELINES ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA UNDER ARTICLE 6(1) (B) GDPR: EDPB BEGINS PUBLIC CONSULTATION
As anticipated under the provision of Article 70(4) of the GDPR, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), on the 12th April 2019 began a public consultation on the Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1) (b) GDPR in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects (the Guidelines), with the […]
News on data protection law
Dear Readers, This is to update you on the latest news and developments in matters of data protection law. If you would like to be provided with more details, don’t hesitate to contact us via the commentary function. We will also link to our blog posts (mostly in German), if we have already reported on […]
Processing Personal Data in the Context of the Clinical Trial Regulation (CTR), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has provided a clear guidance on the legal basis for processing personal data when conducting clinical trials. Although the opinion refers specifically to the interaction between the GDPR and the Clinical Trial Regulation (CTR), in this article we summarize the premises applicable for the processing of personal data in […]
THE NIGERIAN DATA PROTECTION REGULATION 2019: OVERVIEW, EFFECTS AND LIMITS
It would appear that the wind of data protection reform that has recently blown across the world has finally found its way to Nigeria with the passing of the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (the Regulation) by the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the 25th January 2019. From the preamble of the Regulation, one […]
One for All and All for One…How the Supervisory Authorities are Working Together
The GDPR was created in such a manner to provide the same data privacy rights to data subjects throughout the EEA. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has provided a report on how this is working so far, “First overview on the implementation of the GDPR and the roles and means of the national supervisory […]
The Long Arm of the GDPR
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) strictly regulates the collection, use and storage of personal data, but does the long arm of the law stretch beyond the EU borders more than anyone could have anticipated? If you are surfing the web to see who the GDPR applies to, you could come to the conclusion […]
The “Cookiewall” crumbles
The Dutch data protection authority on 7th March 2019 issued an opinion[1] on the use of so called “Cookiewalls”, deeming such practice as unlawful in light of the GDPR and announcing intensified audits in regards to the right implementation of cookies in the coming period.[2] European regulation of Cookies The first regulation of cookies at […]
Deal or No Deal, Brexit is Coming
Whether or not the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) can agree on an exit deal, the UK will be leaving the EU come March 30, 2019. Although the UK plans to incorporate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into national law there will still be some data privacy issues that arise as […]
Helpful tips in preventing personal data breaches
Following the coming into force of the GDPR, the state of the law has since changed in relation to the reporting and consequences of data breaches. However, it would appear that adopting some basic data protection ethics could help companies reduce the occurrence of data breaches. This article is aimed at identifying some basic practices […]
Data Protection Day 2019: The European Commission publishes a statement on the GDPR journey so far
In commemoration of the world data protection day (held annually on the 28th January), the European Commission (the Commission) published a statement on the EU data protection law particularly since the coming into force of the GDPR on the 25th May 2018. Citing the Facebook Analytica case and other recent data breaches as references, the […]
News on data protection law
Dear Readers, this year we would like to introduce an additional concept to our blog in order to provide regular information also to our English-speaking readers. To do so we will upload in regular intervals (every 1-2 months) short overviews of interesting news, changes and decisions in matters of data protection. If you would like […]
Italian Antitrust ( AGCM) fines Facebook for 10 Million Euros.
At the end of last year, the Italian Authority for the competition in the marked has closed the investigations running since April 2018 against Facebook Ireland and its parent company Facebook Inc. for alleged violations of the consumers code by issuing a fine to the company of 10 Million Euros. According to the Italian Authority, […]
VIOLATION OF CHILDREN’S PRIVACY – Record COPPA Enforcement against Oath, Inc.
In December 2018, the office of the New York Attorney-General issued the largest ever US penalty for the violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to Oath Inc, the Verizon-owned company formerly known as AOL. In addition to the penalty amount of 4.95 Million USD, Oath Inc, agreed to adopt extensive COPPA compliant […]