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What is changing in each member's jurisdiction — enforcement, case law, new obligations.

711 articles

The Belgian data protection authority fines a data controller 50,000 EUR for appointing a DPO with a potentially conflicting position

It is not too uncommon for a single person to be in charge of general compliance in an organisation, and to also act as its DPO. Is that in line with the GDPR's requirements for independence of the DPO? The Belgian DPA says no, and issued a fine to the data controller.

6 May 2020

Litigation

A US$ 6 Million Judgment was Passed in Israel, for the Sale of Location Data

On March 23, 2020, a 5 year class action that was until now under a gag order, was finally lifted and the Judgment (authorization of a settlement in a class action suit) was published.

21 April 2020

Health data

Protection of Personal Data vs. Citizen’s Health

At the time of the fight against the corona virus pandemic, the need to establish an imaginary border between the protection of personal data on the one hand, and the need to protect the lives and health of citizens on the other is much more relevant than was previously the case.

16 April 2020

Using data from mobile phone apps in the combat of COVID-19 in Norway

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to combat the spread of the virus are having a severe impact in a number of countries, including Norway. The serious situation makes it necessary to implement serious measures, which could also include processing of personal data which, in a normal situation, would not have been legal, but for which the current situation provides justification. It is however essential for any democratic society that it, in times of crisis, is able to carry out these measures in a manner that does not jeopardize basic human rights, such as the basic right to privacy.

1 April 2020

Covid-19 and personal data protection in turkey – Frequently asked questions

This article answers many freuqently asked questions concerning data protection in turkey during times of Covid-19.

31 March 2020

Employment data

Protection of personal data of employees (and other persons) during the state of emergency in the Republic of Serbia

One of the possible solutions for processing personal data based on a legitimate interest of companies.

31 March 2020

Italian data protection authority against the unlawful data processing through telemarketing activities

The Italian Data protection Authority (Italian DPA) issued two fines against Tim and Eni Gas e Luce, for a total amount of almost 36 million euros, due to data processing for telemarketing purposes carried out without the data subjects’ consent.

28 March 2020

Employment data

EDPB Issues Guidance on GDPR Compliance in the Age of COVID-19

After many data protection authorities (in the European Union and beyond) provided guidance and FAQ's on the relationship between COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and data protection laws (e.g. GDPR), the European Data Protection Board has weighed in with a guidance.

27 March 2020

Enforcement & finesEmployment data

Fine for a lack of legal basis of scoring sick leaves of employees

An administrative Fine of 82,000 EURO was imposed by the Cyprus Data Protection Authority concerning the lack of legal basis of scoring sick leaves of employees.

17 March 2020

Enforcement & fines

Fine for Dutch tennis association for unlawfully selling personal data

The Dutch DPA imposed a fine of 525,000 euros for the unlawful sale of personal data by the Dutch national tennis association the KNLTB. In 2018, the KNLTB unlawfully provided personal data of a few hundred thousand of its members to two sponsors against payment.

17 March 2020

GDPR through the prism of coronavirus epidemic

The difficulty of drawing a hard-and-fast line between the right to privacy and the rights of other people to stay healthy

17 March 2020

The re-use of public sector information

The re-use of Public Sector information has to be built on a balanced approach where the public interests of such use have to be properly weighted against other important rights especially privacy. A recent bill was tabled in Maltese Parliament entitled ‘An Act to amend the Re-Use of Public Sector Information’ – how does this it measure up?

17 March 2020

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