EU PRIVACY

EU Data Protection Authorities released useful Data Protection Impact Assessment tools (DPIAS) Belgium: the Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Commissie voor de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer (CBPL) issued a Recommandation d'initiative concernant l'analyse d'impact relative à la protection des données (n° 01/2018) Cyprus: the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, Γραφείου Επιτρόπου Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Read more [...]

According to Reuters, Facebook is modifying its terms and conditions so that the data of around one and a half billion of its users will be processed by Facebook USA rather than Facebook Ireland. As of today, the data of the users of Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America are processed by Facebook Ireland, thus falling under the umbrella of the applicable EU data protection laws. Despite not being European, the processing of data of the users from these countries would have fallen straight Read more [...]

On February 6, 2018, Working Party 29 (WP29) adopted the Guidelines on Automated individual decision-making and Profiling for the purposes of Regulation 2016/679 (wp251rev.01). Advances in the capabilities of big data analytics, as well as the widespread availability of personal data on the internet and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices can allow aspects of an individual’s interests to be analyzed and predicted. Regulation 2016/679, the s.c. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) addresses Read more [...]