The authors highlight the main innovations brought by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”) to Directive 95/46/EC. The full text is available at http://www.whitecase.com…
On September 23, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced the intention to set up a Digital Clearing House to promote a more coherent enforcement of EU privacy rules. With Opinion 8/2016, Coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data, the EDPS drew attention to the “concentration of market power and […]
The ICO published a guidance to help data controllers fully understand their obligations and promote good practice for the case in which the user of the device is not the data controller. Bring your own device (BYOD) raises a number of data protection concerns. Therefore: It is crucial that the data controller ensures that all […]
On September 23, 2016, Ronald Schwartz, a New York resident, filed a case and sought class-action certification on behalf of himself and other users against defendant Yahoo. According to the complaint, the Company “failed to adequately protect its users or itself from data breach”. The claim was filed after, on September 22, 2016, Yahoo issued […]
On July 14, 2016, the Second Circuit held that U.S. law does not authorize a warrant against a U.S.-based service provider for the seizure of e-mails stored in Ireland. In December 2013, a New York district court issued a warrant ordering Microsoft to produce all emails and private information associated with a certain account hosted by […]
On September 20, 2016, NYU Center for Cybersecurity hosted Follow the Money: Fighting Cybercrime in the Digital Underworld. The program was very engaging and the panelists brought to the table expertise in different fields to discuss the reality of cybercrime. Their conclusion was that cyber-criminals remain individuals motivated by money, hence the title of the lecture. Deterring […]
Thanking CORDERY, we gladly publish the EU Data Protection – glossary (originally published by Cordery at http://www.corderycompliance.com/eu-data-protection-regulation-glossary/) We’ve put together this glossary to help explain some of the terms used in data protection and in the GDPR. If there’s a term you think we should add let us know. Agencia de Proteccción de Datos = the Spanish […]
On August 25, 2016, WhatsApp issued a statement informing its users that the application’s terms and privacy policy was updated, which was also a consequence of WhatsApp’s joining Facebook. Allegedly WhatsApp wanted to modify the privacy policy to allow users to “communicate with businesses”. WhatsApp notified all users –with the latest supported versions of the […]
The Italian Intellectual Property Code (Law 633/1941) protects the rights of someone who makes a material investment to gather and organize the content of a database. Article 102bis and ter: Rights of a database developer – user’s rights and obligations. An Italian Court recently held that in order for an investment in a database to receive protection, it needs not to […]
The number of drones in Ireland is growing fast. Their increased use brings up a range of legal and commercial issues. In this note the authors discuss “two recently implemented statutory instruments, the Regulation of Drones Bill and the guidelines issued by the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the use of drones to comply with the […]