The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) strictly regulates the collection, use and storage of personal data, but does the long arm of the law stretch beyond the EU borders more than anyone could have anticipated? If you are surfing the web [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Barreiro Hospital in Portugal was fined 400,000 € by the Portuguese Data Protection Authority CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) for incompliancy with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not separating access rights to patents’ [...]
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 [...]
Data transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area are only legal if –in addition to the requirement of a legal basis or the data subject's consent– an adequate level of data protection in that country can be guaranteed. One way this can be [...]
One of the most controversial matters to be addressed within the context of Brexit, has created uncertainty in the data protection realm. Although United Kingdom is leaving the European Union, there seems to be a general consensus to maintain constant [...]
