On November 16, 2018, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) successor of the Art. 29 Data Protection Working Group, released its long-awaited Guidelines 3/2018 on the...more
On August 15, 2018, the federal committee of the German supervisory authorities, also known as the Data Protection Conference (Datenschutzkonferenz,“DSK”), published on its website a joint list of processing operations...more
On May 25, 2018, at the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted its “Guidelines 2/2018 on derogations of Article 49 under Regulation 2016/679”...more
On January 24, 2018, the European Commission (“EC”) published additional guidance (“Guidance”) to facilitate the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which will become effective on May 25 in all...more
On July 5, 2017, the German parliament passed the new German federal data protection act (“FDPA”), setting the stage for the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) coming into force in Europe in May next year. The new...more
In January 2017, the European Commission (the “EC”) published its proposal for a new ePrivacy Regulation (the “ePrivacy Proposal”), which will replace the ePrivacy Directive of 2002 (2002/58/EC) and the Cookie Directives of...more