DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy practice delivers topical legal and regulatory updates and analysis from across the globe.
On 17 July 2018 the European Union and Japan agreed to recognise each other’s data protection systems as ‘equivalent’ and to adopt reciprocal adequacy decisions. What is an adequacy decision? An adequacy decision is a decision establishing that a third country provides a comparable level of protection of personal data to that in the European […]
On 10 July 2018, the Information Commissioner published an update on its investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns. The report follows the launch of the ICO’s formal investigation in May 2017 into allegations of ‘invisible processing’ of personal data and targeting of political adverts during the EU referendum. The investigation remains […]
By Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé The French Council of State affirmed the EUR 25,000 fine imposed by the CNIL on Editions Croque Futur (challenges.fr) for non-compliance with French data protection law, and in particular cookie requirements. The facts go back to 2014-2015 when the French data protection authority (the CNIL) found out that French company Editions, Croque […]
By Claire Sng (Senior Associate, London) and John Wilks (Partner, London) With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) having taken effect across the EU on 25 May 2018, this has meant a big change to the availability of WHOIS data (ie data recording – among other things – the persons who own domain names). See an […]
In the last two weeks the Chinese authorities have been busy providing much-anticipated guidance on the practical steps organisations must take to comply with the new data protection, cybersecurity and technology regulations. In short, the key developments are: Practical implementation guidance under PRC Cybersecurity Law Draft Guidelines on Multi Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) for information […]
By Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé The French Constitutional Council has issued its ruling on June 12 regarding the new data protection law implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s a PASS! Almost a month after Senators referred the newly adopted data protection law to the Constitutional Council, thus blocking its promulgation on time for […]
By Stanislav Bednar (Associate, Prague) and Jan Metelka (Junior Associate, Prague) In June 2018 the European Court of Justice’s Grand Chamber decided[1] on a long awaited case[2] regarding the responsibility of the administrators of Facebook fan pages, relating to the personal data of visitors to fan pages. The original dispute started in 2011, discussing whether […]
Only five days after the GDPR became applicable, the first German court, the Regional Court (Landgericht) Bonn (in a decision dated 29 May 2018, case number 10 O 171/18 – in German only), issued a ruling on the practical application of the GDPR. This probably makes the court’s ruling the first GDPR court decision worldwide, […]
