The Comission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, the French Data Protection Authority (‘CNIL’) published FAQs and a new guideline regarding cookies on October 1st, 2020. This guideline that was previously publicly consulted between January 14th to February [...]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in article 37.2 mentions the possibility of appointing a Data Protection Officer (DPO) for a business group, provided that the DPO is accessible from each establishment. This article has led to the conclusion [...]
El Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (RGPD) en su artículo 37.2, menciona la posibilidad de nombrar un Delegado de Protección de Datos (DPD) para un grupo empresarial, siempre y cuando este sea accesible desde cada establecimiento. Bajo esta [...]
The Organisation (defendant) designated their Head of Compliance, Risk and Audit as their Data Protection Officer (DPO). The DPA ruled that in doing so, the Organisation violated art. 38(6) GDPR which requires that any tasks of the data protection officer [...]
The APD/GBA (Belgian DPA) in April 2020 decided upon a complaint made in September 2018 with the authority.[1] The affected person claimed that he was filmed by CCTV of a store while walking outside on the sidewalk. The DPA investigated the complaint and re [...]
The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, Dutch data protection authority, imposed a fine on a company, which relied on scanning their employees’ fingerprints for attendance and time registration.[1] Facts in a nutshell In the case at hand, the respective comp [...]
Following a two-year long investigation, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has issued a fine of 525.000€ on the Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB) for selling personal data of its members to third parties. Which data was sold? KNLTB sold pers [...]
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) issued two decisions on 7 October 2019 based on which it imposed two administrative fines amounting to 200,000 euros each to the Hellenic Telecommunications Provider, “OTE”. According to the decisions, [...]
