An Irish High Court ruling may have a significant impact on one of the main mechanisms that global companies use to transfer personal data out of the European Economic Area […]
On 5 September 2017, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the “ECHR”) overturned the previous decision of the ECHR (sitting as a Chamber) and ruled that […]
On 13 September 2017, the UK Government introduced the new Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) in the House of Lords. If enacted, the Bill will repeal and replace the existing […]
The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy (“Privacy Commission”) has recently published guidance on Article 30 of the GDPR which contains the obligation for data controllers and processors to […]
Today the BBC published a news article on the panic many businesses are now in over the imminent implementation of the GDPR in May 2018. According to the BBC article, […]
The EU’s Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) adopted, on 5 April 2017, final guidelines on the new right of data portability under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) […]
On 27 April 2017 the German Parliament passed the new Federal Data Protection Act (the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz or “new BDSG”) which from 25 May 2018 will replace the current German Data […]
On 6th April, 2017, the European Parliament adopted a resolution stating that there are deficiencies in the EU-US data transfer accord Privacy Shield which must be “urgently resolved” in order […]
The closely followed case challenging the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data outside the EEA to countries considered not to provide an adequate level of […]
On December 19, 2016 the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) launched a public consultation (the “Consultation”) on the potential benefits and risks of Big Data for consumers […]