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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

By Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Yaël Hirsch On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance[1] finalizing, at the legislative level[2], the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation[3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680[4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No. 2018-493 related to personal data protection[5] […]

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THE NETHERLANDS: Dutch SA initiates exploratory investigation into DPAs

The Dutch Supervisory Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “AP”) recently communicated a press release stating that it reached out to 30 organizations to request information relating to their data processing agreements (DPAs).  Organizations that have been contacted are companies in the media, energy and trade sectors. The AP has requested, among other things, what agreements organizations have […]

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Spanish Senate signs-off new GDPR-compliant Data Protection Act

After a very long delay and amidst rumors that the Spanish Parliament could be dissolved and early elections called, the Spanish Senate speedily dismissed all the proposals for further changes and approved the new GDPR-compliant Spanish Data Protection Act on Wednesday 21 November 2018. The new Act (“NLOPD“), in addition to regulating many other topics: […]

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CHINA: Data and cyber – New guidelines you need to know

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 […]

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GERMANY: First court decision on GDPR

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, […]

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FRANCE: The new data protection law under Constitutional review

The newly adopted French data protection law is already challenged by Senators who requested a constitutional review the day after the new law’s adoption. This had been announced: at least 60 Senators have referred the new French data protection law to the French Constitutional Council. Despite the accelerated procedure initiated by the Government in December […]

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