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The Dutch data protection authority on 7th March 2019 issued an opinion[1] on the use of so called “Cookiewalls”, deeming such practice as unlawful in light of the GDPR and announcing intensified audits in regards to the right implementation of cookie [...]
Whether or not the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) can agree on an exit deal, the UK will be leaving the EU come March 30, 2019. Although the UK plans to incorporate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into national law there [...]
[audio mp3=" the coming into force of the GDPR, the state of the law has since changed in relation to the reporting and consequences of data breaches. However, it would appear that adopting some basic data protection ethics could help companies reduce the occurre [...]
In commemoration of the world data protection day (held annually on the 28th January), the European Commission (the Commission) published a statement on the EU data protection law particularly since the coming into force of the GDPR on the 25th May 20 [...]
Dear Readers, this year we would like to introduce an additional concept to our blog in order to provide regular information also to our English-speaking readers. To do so we will upload in regular intervals (every 1-2 months) short overviews of interesting [...]
At the end of last year, the Italian Authority for the competition in the marked has closed the investigations running since April 2018 against Facebook Ireland and its parent company Facebook Inc. for alleged violations of the consumers code by issuing [...]
In December 2018, the office of the New York Attorney-General issued the largest ever US penalty for the violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to Oath Inc, the Verizon-owned company formerly known as AOL. In addition to the [...]
Nowadays crimes are more and more committed or at least facilitated by a smartphone or other computing device. That is why digital evidence in form of data is essential in almost all criminal investigations.[1] But that does not mean that the collectio [...]
