A major decision issued by the ECJ on Thursday 16th of July invalidated toe Transatlantic data flow agreement between the EU and the US for the second time after the Safe Harbor invalidation by the ECJ. NEW IMPORTANT UPDATE 24th July 2020 – NOYB Next Steps for EU companies & FAQs FISA 702+EO 12333 have…
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BCS Law specialists group webinat on Large Language Models and the future of education and law
As the GDPR has now celebrating it’s 6 years and 4 years of enforcement, Here an exhaustive practical case law analysis of the importance of taking appropriate security measures and how things can go wrong.
Reading and analysing in the world of Internet regulation, a fast pace marathon
First of all, what are the specificities of the legal professions in this regard and who are we targeting? All legal experts, lawyers, bailiffs or notaries. All professionals dealing with the law, in the service of justice, one of the major pillars of our democracy. They are legal technicians, they are well qualified to read…
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Non compliance with the GDPR has three series of legal consequences : We’ve extensively heard of the administrative enforcement by national Data Protection Authorities. The third level is civil liability as set by the Article 82 GDPR.
In the midst of the holiday season, the French Data Protection Authority CNIL issued an administrative sanction to a French company operating in several countries in Europe offering payment solutions.
WhatsApp issued second-largest GDPR fine of €225 M : “The DPC gets about 10,000 complaints per year since 2018 – and this is the first major fine”.
Article 82 GDPR has created a right for compensation and edict the liability as a result of an infringement of this Regulation. So far, national courts have been rather reluctant or inconsistant at allowing compensation.
On July 16, 2021, the Luxembourg personal data protection authority finally ruled on our collective complaint filed by 10,000 people against Amazon in May 2018. This decision comes after three years of silence that made us fear the worst ( re-read our fears which, in the case of Amazon, are therefore now obsolete).
The Journey to a New Privacy Shield and Who is Leading the Way.
A panel discussion moderated by Jacob Høedt Larsen, Head of Communications at Wired Relations, Tara Taubman-Bassirian LLM , Scott Wilson Consultant and Bill Mew, Founder and CEO at Crisis Team will be speaking at a Privsec Webinar Tuesday 22nd of June at 12 BST.
The modern Cassandra Complex – By Daniel Aldridge Senior Policy & Programmes Manager at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT I’m never one to shy away from a niche topic, especially one at the vanguard of politics and technology, so I was happy to speak at the Holyrood Connect event last week on cyber security and data…
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I’m never one to shy away from a niche topic, especially one at the vanguard of politics and technology, so I was happy to speak at the Holyrood Connect event last week on cyber security and data protection post Brexit. Public Sector Cyber Security Northern Ireland Especially as increasingly I feel that we in the…
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Let’s talk about the future of the pervasive and privacy intrusive tracking from the AdTech industry. Will a new system really better protect the right to privacy in the EU? First, one should not forget that privacy in the EU is a fundamental human right protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [1] The AdTech…
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This article was previously published. It’s being re-published here since the latest enforcements by national Data Protection authorities : After the French CNIL has fined the Supermarket Carrefour and Carrefour Bank for a total of 3 Million Euros, two new enforcements : Google for 100 million euros and Amazon for 35 million Euros for non-compliant use of #cookies (in…
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Legal and Regulatory Responses to Technology Challenges In Octobre 2020, I participated to this online event organised by the Practicing Law Institute PLI. I participated, along with EU and US experts, on the first panel on E.U. Developments in Platform Regulation. The material remains available on demand until Octobre 2021. I focused on Chapitre V,…
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Pourquoi les visages des policiers en action doivent etre floutés S’il est vrai que la liberté d’expression et la liberté d’information sont garantie par la Constitution francaise et la Convention Europeenne des Droits de l’homme, la Protection de la vie privee est tout autant digne d’interet. Quels sont les textes : Ainsi, toute personne, même…
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Latest news, unless I have missed something : ✅ EU wants to ban encryption, ✅ EDPB published their after SchremsII Supplementary Transfer Measures and Surveillance ✅ EU Commission’s draft Implementing Decision on SCCs ✅Datatilsynet’s accreditation requirements for code of conduct monitoring body ✅EDPS’ opinion on the European Commission’s proposal for temporary derogations of the ePrivacy…
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The French DPA CNIL finally enforced the law, Carrefour supermarket and Carrefour Bank fined for 2 250 000 euros and 800 000 euros.
Mossack Fonseca hack and the Panama Papers scandal should have been a wake up call for all law firms to take clients data security more seriously. Here is Why we Should All Care About Panamapapers even if we have no offshore investment.
Part of the data protection duties for any controller owning a website is to ensure the security of the electronic transmissions and the personal data of their visitors and E2EE.
Le lundi 11 mai, le Conseil constitutionnel a rendu son avis sur la loi votée par le Parlement samedi.
Is NHSX UK centralised Tracing APP capable of best combat the COVID19 propagation? the Balance of proportionality looks rather weak.
In this digital era, freely available data is overwhelming. Data storage has become excessively cheap or free. Access to valid information is capital. In the light of the recent terrorists attacks, our Western intelligence agencies have proved to have missed this ability of efficiently process the mass of collected data. They were not able to prevail…
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We have recently looking at Artificial Intelligence, after Police wearable cameras, Police 3D Printing a digital finger, Police killing robots, here comes a look at drones and ‘driveless’or ‘autonomus’ cars. Google initiated the path, Telsa has been in the news for a recent accident. ‘Security robot accidentally attacks child’. Finally, but not the last incident to report, a ‘Robot vacuum cleaner ‘attacks’ South Korea housewife’s hair’. All incidents…
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Keeping an eye on sources and articles around the issue of data collection.