One of the most frequent questions we have at the moment is from clients asking us when the new EU data protection laws will come in. Needless to say there is no definite answer. In May 2014 we looked at what the proposed new laws say and some of the history behind them. You can […]
After WP29 issued the guidelines to help authorities to deal with appeals resulting from search engines’ refusal to “de-list” (see here), the Italian Data Protection Authority is facing the challenges of implementing the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. As of February 2015, the Italian Data Protection Authority received around 10 appeals against search engines refusal to […]
On 28 January 2015, the Brazilian government issued a Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data (Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais). The Draft establishes a comprehensive, European-style data protection framework for the processing of all personal data. It applies to individuals and companies that process personal data via automated means, […]
On January 16, 2015, President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron agreed to deepen their cybersecurity cooperation to better protect American and British citizens. Obama assured that they will work “to find … a consistent framework whereby our publics have confidence that their government can both protect them, but not abuse our capacity to operate in […]
On February 5, 2015, the President urged the Operative Council of Cybersecurity to review the legislation, “in order to find a balance between the respect of individual freedoms and preventing terrorism, cyber crime and combating corruption”. In a press released on January 21, 2015, “the sole authority of constitutional jurisdiction in Romania”, the Constitutional Court, “upheld the objection of […]
The report reviews existing mutual legal assistance (“MLA”) laws and policies around the world, and proposes a number of reforms. The full text is available at https://globalnetworkinitiative….
German data watchdogs met in Berlin on January 28, 2015, to discuss the transfer of data between the EU and the USA. The leaders debated on the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework in the post-Snowden era. The details of the discussion are available at https://www.huntonprivacyblog… More information is available at http://www.zdnet… The conference’s program (in […]
The Chilean government has just published an open consultation about its data protection bill. The text of the bill – which is expected to be a “European style” data protection law – will be published soon. More information are available in English here, and here, and in Spanish here and here Follow us on& Like us on
January 16, 2015: “We would like to keep you informed on progress of the amendments to the Federal Law № 242-FZ introducing amendments to the Federal Law “On personal data” and to the Federal Law “On information, information technologies and protection of information” (hereinafter – the “Law”) that has been adopted earlier on July 21, […]
On November 12, 2014, the French data protection agency (“CNIL”) issued a new compliance pack (pack de conformité) for the insurance sector. The compliance pack is a new tool that the CNIL developed to aid professionals working in the insurance field in the application of the French data protection law. The pack de conformité is […]