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Impacts du RGPD pour les sociétés hors UE
Saviez-vous que le Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données s’applique également aux sociétés étrangères à l’UE si elles offrent des produits...
GDPR and US companies: Up close with a Privacy Shield official
On Tuesday 26 May, EDPO hosted an exclusive webinar on GDPR and US companies with a Privacy Shield official. Rochelle Osei-Tutu shared her insights...
DPO and conflict of interest: the Belgian DPA issues a 50,000 EUR fine
On 28 April 2020, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”), fined a Belgian company 50,000 EUR for breach of article 38 (6) of the GDPR. The...
Your Quick Guide to GDPR Fines and Sanctions
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is novel not just because of the sweeping nature of the regulation. It's also one of the first...
GDPR and Brexit: How Data Protection Will Be Impacted
Brexit will change almost every core function for UK companies that do business with the EU: from trade to regulation, hiring and transport, there's...
What Is the GDPR and When Do You Need a GDPR Representative?
In 2018, the European Commission introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It shook the world because it applied both to European...
Privacy Shield companies and Brexit
When the “General Data Protection Regulation” (the “GDPR”) took effect on 25 May 2018, it applied in all EU Member States, including the UK....
Will complying with India’s privacy law…
"Although deviations do exist among key privacy principles, such as the PDPB's (Personal Data Protection Bill) data localization requirement, a...
The challenge of adequacy with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law
"Compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law has proven to be an essential and complex challenge for organizations. The lack of a...
Personal Data Leaked To Gambling Companies
"Despite the new customer identity verification rules introduced by the UK Gambling Commission, effective May 7, 2019 as part of their three-year...
Europe’s privacy overhaul has led to $126 million in fines
The EU’s GDPR privacy law led to over 160,000 data breach notifications, according to law firm DLA Piper. The biggest penalty under GDPR to date was...
Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years
"Regulators want time to work out how to prevent the technology being abused. The technology allows faces captured on CCTV to be checked in real...
Google wants to make third-party cookies obsolete
"The company revealed plans to phase out third-party cookies recently on the official Chromium blog to increase "the privacy of web browsing". ...
Washington State Takes Another Pass at a Privacy Law
"Like the proposal that failed last year, Senate Bill 6281 would apply to companies large and small conducting business in Washington that control...
EU Parliament debates: Could California be considered ‘adequate’ on its own?
"Could California have its own Privacy Shield arrangement separate from the rest of the U.S.? That was the most exciting question that emerged from...