The European Commission has announced that a political agreement has been reached on a new framework on transatlantic data flows. The announcement was made in a press conference on February […]
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) ruled earlier this month that an employer’s monitoring of an employee’s personal emails in a work-related Yahoo account was not a breach of […]
After almost four years of intense negotiations, on 15 December 2015, an informal agreement on the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation was reached between the Council of Ministers and the […]
In 2013, the European Commission put forward a proposal for a Network and Information Security Directive (the “NIS Directive”) as part of the EU’s Cyber Security Strategy. The European Parliament […]
As the legislative journey for the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) nears its conclusion, last week (Nov. 27,2015) saw the publication of a further compromise text which left the door […]
On October 29, 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens (the “Resolution”). Positioned as a follow-up to its resolution of 12 March […]
The Article 29 Working Party, which includes representatives from all EU Data Protection Authorities, released its much-awaited guidance on the judgment by the European Court of Justice declaring the European […]
A new EU-US data protection “Umbrella Agreement” has been finalized which once in force will implement a high-level data protection framework to cover the transfer of personal data from the […]
On August 18, 2015, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued an enforcement notice against Google ordering the removal of nine search results that linked to information about a certain individual’s […]
More than three years after the initial proposal for the EU Data Protection Regulation was published by the European Commission, it has been agreed by Europe’s Council of Ministers. The […]