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While regulations shift and threats evolve, the gap between legal obligation and practical action grows wider every day. The FIRST PRIVACY experts break down demanding topics – with sharp analysis, actionable guidance, and a clear view of what actually matters for your organisation.
It is the easiest excuse on the books right now. You want to do that…I am sorry data protection law prohibits it. Somethings are truly not allowed under data protection law, but sometimes people just use this as an excuse that they assume very few people [...]
In April 2022, the Spanish data protection supervisory authority – Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) – issued several fines and in this article, we will review four decisions totaling 178,000 euros. What and why is the AEPD issuing fines? Unlawful use of cookie [...]
The French data protection supervisory authority, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), recently published a Guide (25.04.2022) about call recording to prove the formation of a contract. When to record? The rule of thumb is to record calls [...]
Google introduced a “reject all” cookie button for Search and YouTube. Google launched in France a cookie banner enabling users to use Search and YouTube and “REJECT ALL” the cookies used for personalizing content and ads, measuring their effectiveness, [...]
The Spanish data protection supervisory authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), has issued a fined of 2 million EUR against Amazon Road Transport Spain, S. L., a logistics company that manages deliveries for US-based online-merchant [...]
Spring has sprung, but we are still waiting for the flowers to appear. As I wrote in a blog article dated, March 23, 2022, it was anticipated that this spring the EU and the U.S. would come to an agreement with regards to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. On M [...]
As winter draws to an end and the sun begins to shine more often we are noticing the new buds of spring beginning to appear. This spring flowers may not be the only thing making their appearance, the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce [...]
Discussed many times and yet not less important: In order for processing to be lawful, personal data should be processed on the basis of the consent of the data subject concerned or some other legitimate basis. The same applies if the legal basis ceases [...]
