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 […]
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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 2 – 16 June 2023: rules on electronic evidence, explainable AI, and wildcat telemarketing
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal processes and redress Electronic evidence: The European Parliament voted to adopt new rules on the exchange of electronic evidence by law enforcement authorities to make cross-border investigations more effective. It will allow national authorities to request evidence directly from service providers in other […]
Data protection & privacy digest 3 – 16 May 2023: data processing roles and obligations elaborated by EU top court
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Legal redress Pseudonymised (non-personal) data processing: In the instance of SRB v. EDPS, the European General Court ruled that pseudonymised data communicated by one party with another would not be regarded as personal data in the recipient’s hands if that party lacks a legal […]
Data protection & privacy digest 12 – 24 October 2022: first GDPR certification seal, test databases, password management
TechGDPR’s review of international data-related stories from press and analytical reports. Official guidance: first European data protection seal, GDPR harmonisation rules, data breach notification, children’s data protection, artistic and literary works The EDPB approved the very first GDPR certification seal, (see the detailed opinion here). Europrivacy became the first certification mechanism that demonstrates compliance. It […]
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 […]