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Data Privacy Guide - Romania

International Lawyers Network on 5/13/2024

Governing Data Protection Legislation - 2.1. Overview of principal legislation - The General Regulation Data Protection (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), as implemented by Law 190/2018 is the principal data...more

Data Privacy Guide - Czech Republic

International Lawyers Network on 5/3/2024

Introduction - The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is the EU regulation which is directly applicable in all member states of the EU, including the Czech Republic, as of 25 May 2018. The new...more

Guernsey data protection series - the seven data protection principles

Walkers on 2/29/2024

This briefing is part of a Walkers series on the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 ("the DPL") was drafted to reflect the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). The DPL came into effect on 25...more

AI Insights: Public Consultation Period Closes for French CNIL Guidance on GDPR-Compliant Development of AI Systems

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/22/2023

On 16 October 2023, France’s Data Protection Authority, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), issued a set of guidelines for complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when...more

UK Data Regulator Joins Scrutiny of WorldCoin

Dechert LLP on 8/23/2023

WorldCoin is a cryptocurrency project which uses iris scanning technology to issue a “World ID” as a digital identifier. Privacy concerns over WorldCoin have been voiced by several data protection authorities worldwide....more

The RIPTA Data Breach May Provide Valuable Lessons About Data Collection and Retention

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/13/2022

Efforts to secure systems and data from a cyberattack often focus on measures such as multifactor authentication (MFA), endpoint monitoring solutions, antivirus protections, and role-based access management controls, and for...more

Privacy Protection Laws in Israel – Outlook for 2022

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 1/3/2022

The legislation of privacy protection laws in Israel has shifted into high gear and is beginning to close the gap with legislation in Europe. A major step in this direction occurred about a month ago when the Ministerial...more

No Cookies for You: DSK TTDSG Guidelines Impose Strict Limitations

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/30/2021

The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) issued guidance on the Federal Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (‘TTDSG’), which went into effect on December 1, 2021...more

China’s New Data Security Law Comes Into Force

Perkins Coie on 9/9/2021

Only two months after the release of the second draft of the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China (the Second Draft), on June 10, 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the new...more

Making the Case for Information Governance and Why You Should Address it Now

Lighthouse on 8/17/2021

You know that cleaning out the garage is a good idea. You would have more storage space and would even be able to put the car into the garage, which is better for security, for keeping it clean, and for ensuring an easy start...more

You Need Only Two Letters Today to Keep Up with the “Alphabet Soup” of Compliance

Reveal on 3/24/2021

Back in November, I wrote on this blog about Big Data being one of the challenges that is forcing technology to move more to the data sooner in the discovery process. One of the most notable fun facts that illustrate just how...more

CPRA Series: The Importance Of Data Retention Schedules And Records Management Policies

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/29/2020

Record retention and records management policies are key elements for a company’s data protection program. Numerous recently enacted, or amended, data protection laws adopt data retention or storage limitation principles to...more

EU Data Protection Authority Levies Its First Fine for Violations of the GDPR

Carlton Fields on 9/9/2020

The French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, has levied its first fine for enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The enforcement target, Spartoo, is a French online shoe retailer that makes its website...more

Data Privacy Is Not a Law, It’s a Lifestyle

NAVEX on 2/10/2020

The words “hodgepodge” and “patchwork” are overused in the world of risk and compliance, but they’re certainly appropriate for describing the myriad data privacy regulations popping up around the world. In 2018, the world...more

GDPR enforcement actions: UK and Germany

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 1/29/2020

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - Two recent enforcement actions shed light on how regulators will enforce GDPR provisions going forward. In one case, the United Kingdom’s Information...more

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/23/2019

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Hanzo's 2018 Review and 2019 Predictions

Hanzo on 1/21/2019

With 2018 in the archives, Hanzo is starting off the new year with a look ahead to the trends and challenges we believe will define the compliance and eDiscovery landscape in 2019, and a look back at the year that was at...more

Straight Talks: Data privacy and cybersecurity in the age of rolling smart devices

Hogan Lovells on 5/10/2018

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 to safeguard the environment against pollutants. The tidal wave of environmental regulations that followed impacted every industry in the United States, especially...more

Web Exclusive: March 2018: The Top 13 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 4/10/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first three months...more

GDPR Compliance Collides with U.S. Law at Supreme Court

Fisher Phillips on 3/8/2018

The EU’s General Data Protective Regulation (“GDPR”) has been a popular topic of late. Fisher Phillips’ Employment Privacy Blog has covered the evolution of this regulation, starting with the roll back of the previous “safe...more

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