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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 3-16 Feb 2024: Sneakily changing terms of service and privacy policy won’t help your business

In this issue, you will find that America’s FTC is warning against retroactively changing terms of service or privacy policy. Palantir running the NHS’s new data platform in the UK, and envisaged changes to the EU GDPR enforcement framework and new dispute resolution mechanisms are also in focus. Sign up to receive our fortnightly digest […]

Data protection digest 3 – 17 Jan 2024: digital services transparency and risk assessment in the focus of regulators

Our latest data protection bulletin focuses on digital services transparency and safety from decentralised clinical trials and health apps to electronic payments and audience measurements. Data transfer impact assessments and the performance of DPOs also feature in this issue. Sign up to receive our fortnightly digest via email. Legal processes Digital Services Act: Online services […]

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 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 18 – 31 Oct 2023: “Pay or Okay” – Will Meta new subscription model survive the GDPR test?

In this issue, we look at Meta’s new ads-free subscription model as the corporation runs out of available legal grounds for tracking and profiling people in the EU for targeted advertising, while being banned from using contract law and legitimate interest as justification. Meta subscription model vs GDPR Meta platform’s latest announcement of ads-free paid […]

Data protection digest 1 – 14 September 2023:  gatekeeper obligations, synthetic datasets, automotive cybersecurity

In this issue, you will find EU gatekeeper obligations, guides on ‘sharenting’, online exams, synthetic data, and the right to object, the Meta ban in Norway, the automotive industry, ads-free Facebook and Instagram, and the Privacy Sandbox availability. Legal processes and redress: gatekeeper obligations, US adequacy decision, Google litigation, UK data protection reform, Quebec privacy […]

Data protection digest 17 – 30 July 2023: guide on website analytics, health care data sharing, and COPPA 2.0

TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official guidance Website analytics: There are many website analytics and tracking tools on the market notes the Norwegian data protection regulator, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s legal to use them on your website. Be prepared to follow the GDPR, even if you do […]

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