TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official Guidance: secure multiparty computation, public procurement, risk analysis, DPIAs The Spanish privacy regulator AEPD has published a tech-savvy blog post on Privacy by Design: Secure Multiparty Computation. It is possible to create federated data spaces, which avoid the communication and exposure of data […]
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Weekly digest May 23-29, 2022: All you need to know about new sets of SCCs in Q&A
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official Guidance: SCCs, facial recognition technology, DPOs, children’s data The European Commission has published questions and answers for the two sets of Standard Contractual Clauses, approved last year for data transfers within and outside of the bloc. These Q&As are based on feedback received […]
Weekly digest May 16 – 22, 2022: cookie-walls, US governmental inquiries, cross-border transfers, AI for hackers
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official Guidance: ‘cookie-walls’, US governmental inquiries, cross-border data transfers The French regulator CNIL published its first evaluation criteria on ‘cookie walls’ or ‘pay walls. All the principles of the GDPR remain applicable to the processing of data related to the use of cookie walls. […]
Weekly digest May 9 – 15, 2022: UK data protection reform, and dark patterns invalidating consent
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal Processes: UK data protection reform Last week in the Queen’s Speech it was announced that the UK’s data protection regime will be reformed through the introduction of the Data Reform Bill, dataprotectionlawhub.com reports. The Bill’s purpose is to “create a trusted UK data […]
Weekly digest May 2 – 8, 2022: DPO dismissals, shareholders, athletes privacy, passwordless future & more
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 Ius Laboris blogpost explains when data protection officers have special protection from dismissal. Art. 38(3) of the GDPR expressly states that the data protection officer shall not be dismissed or penalised […]
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 action 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 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 14 – March 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, DPO, 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 […]