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

707 articles

Hearings in preparation of the GDPR

The Danish Ministry of Justice has begun its work with the Danish adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) in close collaboration with the Danish Business Authority, the Danish Data Pro-tection Agency and the Danish Agency for Digitisation.

15 March 2017

Cloud & vendors

GDPR: a new hope for the use of BCRs for cloud providers in Portugal

The GDPR brings a new hope for the application of BCRs, especially for cloud providers (as processors), as they are given specific recognition in the Regulation, which also sets out in detail the content they must include and the procedure under which they will be approved. However, unless we have some clarification from CNPD until then, we will have to wait for May 2018 to actually put this to test.

6 March 2017

Legislation

The new law on personal data protection: legislative process in Slovakia has been launched

In January 2017, the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic initiated the legislative process leading to the new Law on Personal Data Protection in accordance with the General Regulation on Personal Data Protection.

28 February 2017

Polish Data Protection Authority recommends encrypting email

Polish DPA recent opinion on encryption as preferred response to confidentiality risks associated with email.

22 February 2017

Legislation

Two selected decisions on Austrian data protection law

A case of the DSB (Austrian Data Protection Office) and one of the VwGH (Austrian Administrative Supreme Court) are presented below. The first concerns the question of the admissibility of generating a personal file number on the basis of the birth date. The Supreme Court-decision deals with the issue of identity verification in connection with a request for information.

17 February 2017

Meeting at the offices of Alain Bensoussan Avocats Lexing

Paris, 6th of February 2017: meeting at the offices of Alain Bensoussan Avocats Lexing with Alain Bensoussan, Eric Le Quellenec, Julie Baron and Eric Bonnet discussing the joint European project “Data Privacy Compliance”.

6 February 2017

Cloud & vendorsLegislation

Malta IT Law Association (MITLA) workshop on Cloud Computing

The Malta IT Law Association (MITLA) organised a workshop on Cloud Computing on the 12th of December 2016.

12 January 2017

Legislation

Data Protection Law Made Easy

Lawyers from 32 countries have created the Cloud Privacy Check (CPC), the largest European information platform explaining data protection laws in the simplest possible terms and free of charge. The CPC makes 32 different national regulations directly comparable and allows companies to save thousands of Euros.

21 November 2016

CPC conference Vienna, 28th-30th of October

Contributors of the CPC projects from 20 countries met in Vienna for two days to prepare for the publications of the international CPC platform.

12 November 2016

Meeting with CPC partner Dr. Laux in Switzerland to prepare Phase2 of the project

25th February, Zürich: Meeting with CPC (cloudprivacycheck.eu) partner Dr. Laux in Switzerland to prepare Phase2 of the project. Dinner with Giancarlo Palmisani (Swico). Swico will run the StarAudit Chapter program in Switzerland and Martin Andematten (Glenfis) who is specialised in Multi-provider Service Management and Integration. The photos show the chocolate-work of a very talented Swiss cook on our desert plates.

1 March 2016

EU GDPR, BCR, CPC and other stuff

Tobias Höllwarth draws some lines between the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, Binding Corporate Rules, strategies of Microsoft and Salesforce as well as the Cloud Privacy Check.

30 December 2015

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