TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes and redress: DPO dismissals, Connecticut privacy draft law, EU Health Data Space Ius Laboris blogpost explains when data protection officers have special protection from dismissal. Art. 38(3) of the GDPR expressly states that they shall not be dismissed or penalised by the […]
Author: Olya Vasylyk
Creator and editor of TechGDPR’s weekly Digest. Postgraduate masters Diploma in Data Protection, Digital law and Management. Over a decade Olga previously was a broadcast journalist in Ukraine and France specializing in international affairs.
Weekly digest April 25 – May 1, 2022: class actions authorised in EU data protection cases
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from the press and analytical reports. Legal processes and redress: consumer data class actions, digital content and services, CCPA & CPRA The ECJ ruled that consumer protection associations may bring representative actions against infringements of personal data protection. Such class actions may be brought independently of the specific infringement […]
Weekly digest April 18 – 24, 2022: business and human rights in the activities of tech companies
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official guidance: business and human rights in the activities of tech companies, relaxed covid measures, regulators’ annual analytics Privacy International, (PI), submitted its input to the forthcoming report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the practical application of the UN Guiding […]
Weekly digest April 11 – 17, 2022: France’s CNIL to simplify investigation and enforcement of minor cases
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes: CNIL investigation and enforcement, EDPB procedural rules The French data protection authority CNIL announced a reform of its corrective procedures: towards simplified investigation and enforcement actions. A simplified procedure was created in particular for less complex cases. This reform will allow the […]
Weekly digest April 4 – 10, 2022: EU data governance, digital products security, US law enforcement outreach & privacy
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes and redress: EU data governance, traffic and location data, consumer rights, hospitals The EU Data Governance Act, approved by the Parliament on April 6, promises to boost data sharing in the EU so that companies and start-ups will have access to more […]
Weekly digest March 28 – April 3, 2022: EU crypto-asset transfers to be traced and identified, with some exceptions
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes: crypto-asset transfers, Belgian DPA’s independence EU lawmakers backed tougher rules for tracing transfers of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Reuters reports. Now the EP as a whole should vote on it during the plenary session in April. Companies that make crypto-asset transfers would […]
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 […]
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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