After 12 years at the head of the Hamburg data protection commission, Johannes Caspar is stepping down. The privacy commissioner returns to academia disillusioned with the GDPR, calling it "broken" and lamenting infighting.
Children’s privacy violations is a problem that is common to big tech companies in targeted advertising: screening out minors who are entitled to enhanced data protection rights.
Max Schrems, chairperson of noyb, has directed his organization to file over 100 privacy complaints against major businesses engaging in data transfers with the US.
Those little automated data tracking mechanisms are subject to special treatment, consent, opt in and opt out requirements. Have you properly accounted for cookies for GDPR and CCPA?
Privacy advocate groups allege that UK Test and Trace rushed the process and did not conduct the necessary data protection impact assessment that the GDPR requires for collection of personal data on this sort of scale.
While confirming that SCCs are valid with the Privacy Shield gone, the CJEU underlined that they can only be relied upon when risks have been properly assessed and cannot amount to a “tickbox exercise.
In a landmark decision for the EU-US data transfer regime, the European Court has struck down the EU-US Privacy Shield but given respite to Standard Contractual Clauses.
What are the key steps that businesses can consider taking to ensure the business continuity of their GDPR privacy compliance programs during COVID-19 pandemic?
GDPR has changed the global business landscape in three important ways since its implementation but has also fallen short in some areas from original intention.
France’s data protection watchdog CNIL has published a set of guidelines to provide GDPR guidance on web scraping for direct marketing and recommended actions to businesses.
