Tag: consumer data protection

Data protection digest 3 – 17 Apr 2024: non-material damage dilemma when losing control of your data

In this issue, an alternative to the pay or okay consent model, the right for compensation for non-material damage, FISA reauthorisation and GDPR enforcement procedural rules updates, AI development and personal data… Stay tuned! Sign up to receive our fortnightly digest via email. Non-material damage under the GDPR In one of its recent decisions the […]

Data protection digest 18 Mar – 02 Apr 2024: AI and DP standardisation, patient medical data, human factor in data security

The need for AI and data protection standardisation, best practices on customer and employee data protection, rules on restricted cross-border data transfers, tips for DPOs, CISOs, IT specialists, and much more in our latest digest. Stay tuned! Sign up to receive our fortnightly digest via email. AI and data protection standardisation The French CNIL elaborates […]

Data protection digest 3-17 Mar 2024: Personal data gaps in information systems, TC string, mass data collectors

Information systems, their security, and personal data gaps are the focus of our latest digest. Also requiring your attention are invalid consent in cookie walls, the ‘pay or okay’ subscription model, Open AI “Sora” data practices, and the crackdown on mass data collectors Stay tuned! Sign up to receive our fortnightly digest via email. Personal […]

Data protection digest 18 Feb – 2 Mar 2024: web browsing data for sale, banking sector outsourcing, cybersecurity core 2.0

This issue highlights how web browsing data, non-anonymised according to America’s FTC, was sold worldwide in the Avast/Jumpshot case, the EDPB’s new enforcement action on the right of access, cloud outsourcing in the banking sector, the NIST’s new cybersecurity framework for all organisations, and federated learning analysis. Stay tuned! Sign up to receive our fortnightly […]

Data protection digest 18 Dec – 2 Jan 2024: EDPB says too early to revise GDPR, cross-border enforcement challenge ahead

In this issue, you will find the main trends in data privacy that 2024 will inherit from last year. The main areas of concern include GDPR modernisation and cross-border enforcement, the fair use of AI, international data transfers, the balance between data security and the data-driven economy, as well as children’s privacy online. Regulatory updates […]

Data protection digest 2 – 17 Dec 2023: scoring of individuals, EU data consolidation, and the ‘Internet of Behaviours’

In this issue, the EU legislators moved closer to the implementation of a digital data strategy to provide European organisations with the ability to grow and compete globally. Despite the transformative effects, civil societies and cohorts of experts warn that such consolidation of European data can undermine individual data protection rights. EU regulators and courts […]

Data protection digest 16 Nov – 1 Dec 2023: APIs methodology, customer data minimisation, and digital mobility observatory

In this issue, you will find data protection solutions for complex data-sharing projects for both public and private actors, such as the latest APIs methodology, as well as a variety of official guidance on how to comply with GDPR requirements when it comes to innovation, research, digitisation and digital business development. Official guidance APIs methodology: […]

Data protection digest 1 – 15 Nov 2023: AI application must ensure digital self-determination of data subjects

This issue highlights a couple of analyses that perhaps help to understand the essence of AI and other new technology, to which the GDPR applies, and the urgent need for digital self-determination for its users. Self-determination and AI Digital self-determination of a user: The Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner FDPIC stresses that the current data […]

Data protection digest 2 – 17 October 2023: DPOs duties and methodology should be clarified – latest study

This issue highlights DPOs duties in the context of ongoing compliance with the GDPR, and the continuing saga of the US adequacy decision. Also of note are monitoring and privacy issues in the workplace. Official guidance DPOs duties: The Swedish data protection agency published the results of a coordinated investigation, initiated by the EDPB, on […]

Data protection digest 15 Sep – 1 Oct 2023: cross-border cases get the highest level of attention from regulators

In this issue, cross-border cases get the full attention of the EDPB via its rulemaking on future enforcement procedures to complement the GDPR, resolving a complex case on TikTok children’s privacy, and being asked to permanently ban behavioural ads by Meta in the EU. Legal processes and redress: cross-border enforcement, Grindr fine, EU Data Governance […]

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