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

707 articles

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

The impact of Brexit on EEA-UK data flows

The free movement of personal data within the EEA is a cornerstone of the Single Market – crucial to businesses and consumers operating in the EEA. For users and providers of cloud services within the EEA, it is essential for frictionless data transfers. However, the UK government has confirmed that it will not be seeking membership of the Single Market as part of its Brexit negotiation strategy. In this article we examine comments in the UK government's white paper on principles underpinning its Brexit negotiation strategy and from the UK Minister of State for Digital and Culture, which shed some initial light on how the UK government intends to negotiate uninterrupted EEA-UK data flows.

21 May 2017

Legislation

Draft Regulation on Data Controllers’ Registry

On May 5th, 2017 the Turkish Data Protection Authority published the Draft Regulation on Data Controllers’ Registry (“Draft Regulation”) for comments to be submitted. The Draft Regulation is based on Article 16 of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (“Law”) which came into force last year on April 7th, which states under the supervision of the Board of Protection of Personal Data (“Board”), Data Controllers Registry (“Registry”) will be kept by the Presidency of the Personal Data Protection Authority in a publicly available manner.

18 May 2017

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