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, [...]
On June 30, last, the District Court of Amsterdam (Rechtbank Amsterdam) provided its ruling on the preliminary issues submitted by Facebook Inc. in the case submitted by the Data Privacy Stichting (on behalf of Facebook users) with the support of the Du [...]
The Regensburg (Bavaria) Regional Court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for manslaughter based on evidence from voice recordings of an Alexa smart speaker. The Case The court found the perpetrator –reportedly a notorious stalker– guilty of [...]
Over 300 million social account records, originating from several platforms including Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, were recently exposed through a massive data leak from the cloud of SocialArks. More than 400GB of public and private account data [...]
The Swedish Data Protection Authority took a closer look at eight health care providers in Sweden. Special attention was paid to technical and organizational measures of their systems processing electronic health records. Access to personal data in g [...]
A perennial topic among the data protection issues is the deletion of personal data. We regularly receive inquiries on this topic. In the following, we would like to answer some of the most frequently asked questions. When do I have to delete personal data [...]
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An attempt at delimitation by the European Data Protection Board On 2 September 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a first version of a guideline on the concepts of data controller and processor in the GDPR, which we would like to b [...]
