DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy practice delivers topical legal and regulatory updates and analysis from across the globe.
Organisations should plan ahead for significant changes to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”), proposed in a consultation paper published on 14 May 2020. It is likely that most of the amendments set out in the draft Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2020 (“Bill”) will be passed, since the PDPC has previously carried out three […]
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA”) had made it clear, on several occasions, that taking temperature tests (or otherwise processing health data) as a precautionary measure in light of COVID-19 is a strict “no go”. The position of the Dutch DPA was that most individuals, in particular employees […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has published guidance for employers on complying with data protection law when taking steps to manage Covid-19 health and safety risk in the workplace (“Guidance”). The Guidance focuses on ‘testing’ of employees (which includes collecting data about symptoms and the conducting of temperature checks, and well as collecting data about Covid-19 […]
Jim Halpert, Lael Bellamy May the 4th be with Alastair Mactaggart? On May 4, the Californians for Consumer Privacy, led by founder Alastair Mactaggart, announced its submission to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act for the November 2020 ballot. Because of COVID-19 social distancing measures in place in California and the huge number of signatures […]
By Patrick Van Eecke and Anne-Gabrielle Haie
On 4 May, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted an updated version of its guidelines on consent (Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679). Apart from some minor editorial changes, these revised guidelines clarified some important points related to the conditionality of consent and the unambiguous indication of wishes.
By Patrick Van Eecke and Anne-Gabrielle Haie
Vehicles, drivers and passengers are becoming more and more connected, generating increasing amounts of data. The latest evolution of digital technologies, such as robotics, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, high-performance computers and powerful communication networks leads self-driving cars out of an imaginary world and into our daily lives.
By Stephanie Reinders Folmer and Richard van Schaik The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA“) issued a fine of EUR 725,000 for a company unlawfully processing fingerprints of its employees for attendance and time registration purposes. Under the GDPR, biometric data (e.g. fingerprints) processed for the purpose of identifying a natural person are considered a […]
Mobile applications supporting the EU in its fight against Covid-19: the common EU Toolbox for Member States By Patrick Van Eecke, Heidi Waem and Alizée Stappers On the 8th of April 2020, the European Commission adopted Recommendation 2020/518 to address the need of a common toolbox (the “Toolbox”) for the use of technology and data […]
