Month: March 2022

Weekly digest March 21 – 27, 2022: EU and US reach preliminary data transfer agreement, but experts have doubts

TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes: new EU-US data transfer deal, Digital Markets Act, China’s algorithmic rules The EU and US have announced a new preparatory data transfer deal, seeking to end the legal uncertainty in which thousands of companies found themselves after the CJEU threw out two […]

Weekly digest March 14 – 20, 2022: smart contracts, AI bias, password managers & privacy

TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official guidance: smart contracts, DPOs, AI risk management, GDPR cooperation The Spanish data protection authority AEPD analyzed smart contracts. Smart contracts are algorithms that are stored in a blockchain and that execute automated decisions. The very nature of the smart contract, when applied to […]

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy by Design

It is not surprising that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and privacy (by design) live in constant tension. It does not help that laws and regulations are slow in keeping up and lack a coherent framework. Meanwhile, AI technologies are introduced across all sectors of our daily lives. Deloitte released an AI report, The AI Dossier, that […]

Weekly digest March 7 – 13, 2022: can employees secretly record workplace conversations?

TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official guidance: workplace conversations, use of the cloud The Latvian data protection authority suggested when an employee could secretly record a conversation in the workplace to protect their interests, IAPP News reports. The regulator concluded that employees can secretly audio record their employer if […]

Weekly digest Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2022: more EU websites to obtain compliant cookie banner

TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes and redress: compliant cookie banner, CEO liabilities, litigation data, virtual currencies NOYB privacy foundation launches the second wave of complaints against deceptive cookie banners after the campaign first started last spring: “Another 270 draft complaints were sent to website operators whose banners […]

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