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

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Five Key Takeaways from the Recent Report on National Implementation of the GDPR in Finland

Right before the midsummer holidays, the TATTI working group appointed by the Finnish Ministry of Justice published its report on the national implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) in Finland. The GDPR will be directly applicable in all EU member states as of 25 May 2018, but it allows certain derogations and additions to be made through national legislation. In its report, the working group proposes the Finnish Personal Data Act (523/1999) to be repealed and replaced by a new Data Protection Act that would complement the GDPR.

31 July 2017

Enforcement & finesLegislation

GDPR-Complementing Regulations Just a Hair’s Breadth Away

Introducing high administrative fines (a maximum of EUR 20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, depending on which is higher) and being surprisingly too close from directly affecting all EU citizens and companies soon, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has undoubtedly been the key theme of data protection discussions and debates over the past years. To apply as early as of 25 May 2018, the GDPR further introduces a number of new terms, concepts, rights and obligations imposed on personal data controllers and processors to be acknowledged and followed.

31 July 2017

Slovenia Strengthening its Position on Personal Data Protection

The Supreme Court rules in favour of suspects' privacy while the Parliament declares "revenge porn" a criminal act.

31 July 2017

Cloud & vendorsLegislation

Records of processing activities according to the General Data Protection Regulation (Art. 30)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply from 25 May 2018. Until then, all regulations of the GDPR have to be implemented into the entire business process workflows.

29 July 2017

Enforcement & finesBreach notification

Dutch DPA published 10 steps to prepare for GDPR

Recently the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens: "AP") published a 10-step-plan for Dutch organizations to prepare for the GDPR. A practical plan to encourage organizations to start preparing step by step.

14 July 2017

Norway: New standard document on connected cars and privacy

Modern cars generate, collect and process a large quantity of data. Some of the data can be linked to the owner, the driver and/or other identifiable persons, and is therefore subject to laws on personal data protection.

13 July 2017

Cloud & vendors

Emergence of a European cloud combining growth and security

A safer and people-friendlier cloud must be built at the European level.

10 July 2017

Cloud & vendors

New Whitepaper "Cloud and Annual Accounts" June 2017

EuroCloud Europe has published in June 2017 a new whitepaper "Cloud & Annual Accounts".

30 June 2017

Cloud & vendors

New Whitepaper "Cloud & Data Protection" June 2017

EuroCloud Europe has published in June 2017 a new whitepaper "Cloud & Data Protection - The Cloud Privacy Check (CPC)".

30 June 2017

Legislation

The Swedish Data Protection Act

Today the processing of personal data in Sweden is regulated in the Personal Data Act (Sw. Personuppgiftslag (1998:204)). On 25 May 2018, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the ”GDPR”) will apply in all EU Member States and it will replace the Personal Data Act.

27 June 2017

GDPR: The Italian Data Protection Authority Issues its First Guidelines

By a press release dated April 28th, 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) issued its first guidelines (“Guidelines”) on the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which constitutes an important and helpful instrument for those interested in making sure their data processing is compliant with the new EU Regulation ahead of its implementation date (May 25th, 2018).

30 May 2017

GDPR: Read from a CPC perspective

I write this text assuming that the reader already knows well about the four-step test implemented by the CPC (http://cloudprivacycheck.eu), and how the CPC otherwise works.

29 May 2017

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