As the French data protection authority (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, CNIL) recently imposed two high-amount sanctions, we take this opportunity to try and make a practical application of some rules from the recently published [...]
The UK data protection authority, Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO), has recently published news regarding their online tracking strategy for 2025. Recognizing that “being tracked online is part of daily life for most people”, in 2024 the I [...]
At the end of last year, in the context of setting the 2023 budget, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données/ Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit or APD) has highlighted the main topics that will be the focus of this year’s [...]
In September 2021, the government launched its consultation here to draw proposals to make substantial changes in the UK Data Protection Laws which were less stringent than the EU GDPR but still covered all the important data protection rights. The UK [...]
In April 2022, the Spanish data protection supervisory authority – Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) – issued several fines and in this article, we will review four decisions totaling 178,000 euros. What and why is the AEPD issuing fines? Unlawful use of cookie [...]
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 [...]
