The Pakistan Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MITT) released a new draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (the PDPB) on 19 May 2023. The PDPB aims to regulate the collection, processing,...more
6/5/2023
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Controller ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Pakistan ,
Personal Data
After over three years of discussions at many levels, it is now clear that the proposed EU data protection framework will be revised, and that it will be in the form of a Regulation – the General Data Protection Regulation....more
Huge uncertainty has been caused by the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 6 October that the Safe Harbor decision by the European Commission is invalid. Many companies which previously...more
The discussions between the EU and the U.S. on the Safe Harbor mechanism seemed to be almost there, but this morning the EU Court of Justice’s Advocate General Yves Bot has set the cat among the pigeons in his Opinion on the...more
9/24/2015
/ Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Social Media ,
Surveillance ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
To become law, the proposed text will need to be adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers (i.e. ‘ordinary legislative procedure’). In March 2014, the European Parliament voted in plenary and...more