Nota Bene Episode 135: Europe Q3 Check In: Brexit, Data Protection, and Block Exemption Regulations with Oliver Heinisch
E14: The Three Pillars of GDPR
E13: GDPR Wedding Day & Beyond
E12: GDPR Article 22 and Automated Decision Making
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
How to avoid a €20m fine. Meritas guide to the steps companies should take to comply with GDPR
Data Privacy Trouble Surrounding Google Street View Cars Presents Lesson for Smaller Companies
Following a public consultation on an initial version released last January, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) last month adopted a final version of its Guidelines on Examples regarding Personal Data Breach...more
Das Bundeskabinett hat am 8. September 2021 die vom Bundesministerium des Inneren, für Bau und Heimat (BMI) vorgelegte neue Cybersicherheitsstrategie 2021 beschlossen. Die neue Cybersicherheitsstrategie wird die deutsche...more
Data Transfer from the European Union to the United States is a knotty process. The difficulties were compounded this summer when Europe’s highest court held the “Privacy Shield” program enabling U.S-E.U. data transfers...more
Der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) hat dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) die Frage zur Entscheidung vorgelegt, inwieweit Verbraucherschutzverbände berechtigt sind, Datenschutzverstöße geltend zu machen. Die Antwort auf diese Frage...more
Global organizations need a clear, legal means to share data across borders, whether to conduct day-to-day business, comply with government regulations, perform under a contract, respond to lawsuits, or simply communicate and...more
As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any actual...more
Since the first enforcement actions have been initiated, some with significant fines, many companies may find themselves somewhat at a loss as they may not fully know how to assess the risks involved and how to react should...more
In May of 2018, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Rules, or GDPR, a legal framework that outlines not only how companies may collect and process personal information of EU residents, but how that data is...more
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Is A Complicated Technology Developed With Data. This Saddles AI It With A Host Of Potential Privacy Regulations, Including Europe’s Data Protection Law, The General Data Protection Regulation...more
BB&K's Christina Morgan Talks About Data Privacy in Riverside Lawyer Magazine - Due to rising concerns about privacy in the digital world, in April 2016, the European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation...more
The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) provides means to enforce provisions related to personal data processing by you as a data controller or data processor. It introduces collective actions everywhere in...more
Everyone knows about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is the EU’s new privacy regime in the region. Over a year has passed since its implementation and organizations are discovering how strict EU...more
A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more
Dear GDPR, Before you were born, you already attracted a lot of attention, after all, not everyone is born over two years after they are conceived and has 28 parents! And your parents had to ?resist an enormous pressure...more
The European Union’s (EU) ambitious and far-reaching regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), became effective on 25 May 2018. On the one-year anniversary, we reflect on some of the principal developments...more
The Lithuanian data protection inspectorate issued a 61,500 EUR fine against a payment services provider for violations of the data minimization, adequate security measures and data breach reporting requirements of GDPR....more
At the beginning of this month, more than 4,000 privacy professionals from around the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. for the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Global Privacy Summit 2019....more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Director Discusses Future Development of Cybersecurity Framework - On March 4, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? Whereas the remedies and sanctions available to DPAs under the Directive were comparatively low (generally subject to a maximum of less than €1 million per infringement, with...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? Under the GDPR, the concept of a "processor" has not changed. Any entity that was a processor under the Directive likely continues to be a processor under the GDPR. However,...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? The defined terms set out in this Chapter are of critical importance to understanding how EU data protection law applies to an organisation. For example, the question of whether...more
Since May 25, 2018, 206,326(!) GDPR cases have been reported by Supervisory Authorities (SAs) from 31 European Economic Area (EEA) countries. Of those, 94,622 were initiated by individual complaints and 64,684 due to data...more
Unfortunately, no industry or business is immune from data security events. Nearly every business collects some form of personal information, whether it involves your employees, customers, vendors, or all of the above....more
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) did NOT make all processing of personal data unlawful, though it seems than many think this, says Michael Kaiser, data protection officer at the Hesse Data Protection Authority...more
Companies face substantial challenges in complying with breach notification requirements under Article 33 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 33 requires a data controller to report a personal data...more