Effective January 1, 2020, a new game-changing privacy law will go into effect in California:  the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). The law will have profound implications for companies that collect personal information, as that term is broadly defined, about California consumers, even if the Company is not based in California. For many […]

The Financial Supervisory Authority in Finland (FIN-FSA) has on 16 October 2018 published an interpretation that provision of insurance against administrative fines and penalty payments is contrary to good insurance practice and is therefore not permitted. Interpretation of ‘Good Insurance Practice‘ According to the interpretation of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA), “it is contrary to good […]

Many questions surround the Blockchain’s compatibility with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (the CNIL) has recently published its initial thoughts on this topic, providing some responses and practical recommendations on how the usage of a blockchain may be compatible with GDPR and more generally Data Protection Law, taking […]

Nowadays it is very common for employees of organizations and companies to be granted access to their e-mails and working files from various electronic devices, such as smartphones, laptops and tablets, by remote access. In fact, most corporate employees reply to e-mails or even open and review documents on their smartphones every day. As a result, […]

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has announced it will not enforce the CAP Code rule requiring promoters to publish or make available the name and county of major prize winners, pending the completion of work arising out of its GDPR Consultation (expected to be completed in the autumn). The Consultation, which closed in June […]

“My Data is Mine” In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, four European Consumers Organisations launched on 30 May 2018 to coordinate collective actions against Facebook in Belgium (Test-Aankoop/Test-Achats), Italy (Altroconsumo), Spain (OCU) and Portugal (Deco-Proteste). The Consumers Organisations argue that Facebook has infringed both Data Protection and Consumer Rights legislations. The collective action […]

On 12 July 2018, the Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain) issued Law No. 30 of 2018 on the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). The PDPL will enter into force on 1 August 2019, giving businesses just under one year from the date of this article to prepare for the new regime. The PDPL will be a […]