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The Austrian Data Protection Authority has recently on the back of a NOYB compliant, come to the decision that the use of Google Analytics is not compliant with the GDPR, Schrems II, and data transfer laws. In the case, they found that personal data from [...]
The European Data Protection Board adopted new Guidelines (05/2021) on the interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR on 18 November 2021. These Guidelines aim to assist con [...]
The Turkish Law on Personal Data Protection No. 6698 (DPL), which entered into force on April 7, 2016, prescribes that data controllers that are not established in Turkey but process personal data of subjects in Turkey ("foreign controllers") must appoint [...]
What is Happening? In light of the increasing importance of whistleblowers and the decreasing levels of uniformity within EU legislation, the European Commission has created the: “Directive on the Protection of Persons who report Breaches of Union Law [...]
The Flemish Authorities initially considered the specific encryption tools as a valid supplementary measure in addition to the European Standard contractual clauses (SCCs). The measure was applied by a European branch of a US company using AWS cloud. [...]
China issued its comprehensive data protection law, the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), on August 20, 2021. The PIPL will come into effect on November 1, 2021. This marks a new era in China’s data protection development. Before the PIPL, [...]
Since the CJEU declared the Privacy Shield agreement invalid with its Schrems II ruling, the EU and the USA have been working on a replacement agreement. This is intended to enable companies to transfer data between EU countries and the USA., thereby [...]
Not that long ago, in January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) entered into force. Shortly after that, a proposition was made to amend the CCPA, introducing a new privacy law in California, the CPRA. We reported here. Californians once more [...]
