As reported in Ars Technica, German data protection authorities have announced that they will immediately begin investigating data transfers from the EU to the US by companies such as Facebook and Google, and may issue orders for data flows to be halted. This is in response to the recent decision by the CJEU giving local DPA’s […]
On October 23, 2015, the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados – CNPD) issued its post-Schrems decision. Implementing the Schrems decision, and referring also to the WP29’s recent statement, the CNPD prohibited data transfers to the US under Safe Harbor. The Authority stated that it will issue provisional authorizations under systems […]
On October 20, 2015, the Irish Data Protection Commission declared that it will proceed to investigate the substance of the complaint brought by Schrems against Facebook “with all due diligence” after the European Court of Justice held the Safe Harbor Decision invalid. The investigation will commence under section 10 of the Irish Data Protection Act and it […]
On July 2, 2015, the New Zealand Harmful Digital Communications Bill received Royal Assent. The law sets up new offenses for cyber-bulling and a new regime to mitigate the harm produced by digital communications and to police them. Using deliberately harmful, threatening or offensive language, could be fined or lead to imprisonment. Critics are […]
The result of one of Europe’s most anxiously awaited data protection cases came out last week. We have previously reported on the action brought by Max Schrems in Austria against Facebook. Our previous alert with background on the case is here. What happened? On July 1, 2015, the Vienna Regional Court (Landesgericht) rejected the Schrems […]
DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES Eu Member States Austria: Austrian Data Protection Authority, Österreichischen Datenschutzbehörde Belgium: Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Commission de la protection de la vie privée, Commissie voor de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer, (CBPL) Bulgaria: Commission for Personal Data Protection, Годишен отчет на Комисията за защита на личните данни Croatia: Croatian Personal Data […]
On February 27, 2015, the White House presented a Discussion Draft on Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The proposed Privacy Bill aims at establishing protections for individual privacy and at implementing it through enforceable codes of conduct. According to the draft, covered entities shall process consumers personal data abiding, among others, to the following […]
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The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a “right to […]
PL&B International (August 2014 issue) From the article: “EU Council provisionally agrees on data transfers and territorial scope. Safe Harbor likely to remain, and Germany proposes more protection for public sector.” The full text can be downloaded (with subscription) at: http://www.privacylaws…