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As result of the latest European Court of Justice decision regarding the administration of Facebook fanpages, Facebook has recently published an Agreement for data processing activities that aims to comply with the said ruling.(Available here). This article contains an analysis from a data protec [...]
According to the 12 June 2018 European Parliament press release, the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE Committee) has called on the European Commission to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield on the grounds that it fails to provide sufficient data protection [...]
The purpose of this article is to summarize the lessons that a company can learn from the Morrisons Case with regard to the level of protection that can be considered as “sufficient” and “adequate” for the protection of the personal data of their employees. [...]
The French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberte (CNIL), released a tool to support data controllers to be compliant with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The tool is aimed at automating the obligatory [...]
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) less than a year away from implementation, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission could quickly become one of the busiest in Europe. New rules dictating that multinationals can treat any supervisory authority [...]
The European Union aims at entering a new era of clinical trials by enforcing the steps towards personalized medicine. Instead of searching for the best therapy to treat a certain diagnosis, they are moving towards pursuing the best suitable individual [...]
The Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) has condemned Facebook Inc. to the payment of a sanction of 1,200,000 Euros for the existence of two serious and one very serious infringements of Data Protection Law. According to the Agency, Facebook treats [...]
The monitoring of employees at work, or more generally the processing of data in the employment context, is a topic that has been debated for as long as the Data Protection Directive (Dir 95/46/EC - DPD) has been around. Nonetheless, due to the emergence [...]
