This week’s alert covers news from the EU, France and the UK. EU European Commission Addresses Free Movement of Health Data France The CNIL Sanctions Two Data Breaches UK Home Logic UK Ltd Fined for Making Nuisance Calls For more information on any of these items, or data privacy issues generally, please feel free to … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from Germany, Japan and the UK. Germany Baden-Württemberg Releases Guidebook on Employee Data Protection Voßhoff Welcomes Decision Not to Enforce Data Retention Japan Japan on the Way to Adequacy Decision by Early 2018? UK SMEs Warned as Firm Hit by Cyberattack is Fined £60,000 by the ICO For more information … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from France, Germany and the UK. France Access to Data of a Deceased Person by Its Heirs Germany Ethics Committee Releases Guidelines on Automated and Connected Driving Higher Administrative Court Rules That Data Retention Obligation Breaches EU Law UK Firm Fined £50,000 by ICO for Nuisance Calls AMI Issues Guidelines … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from France and the UK. France State Council Orders the Deletion of Personal Data in a File Relating to the State Security Experimental Use of Voice Recognition by Banks UK Queen’s Speech Addresses New Data Protection Law For more information on any of these items, or data privacy issues generally, … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from the EU, France and the UK. EU Latest Report on Effect of GDPR Predicts Heavy Consequences for Financial Services Sector France The CNIL Issues Fine to Dental Practice in Relation to Access Right and Lack of Cooperation With the DPA UK ICO Fines Council £100,000 for Failing to Adequately … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from France, Germany and the UK. France CNIL Has Released Further Cookie Guidance Germany Andrea Voßhoff Presents Activity Report for 2014/2015 UK ICO Wins Case Against Former Claims Company Manager for Making Blagging Calls For more information on any of these items, or data privacy issues generally, please feel free … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from Germany and the UK. Germany Hessen and Bavaria Publish Information and Complaint Forms for Data Subjects Concerning “Privacy Shield” Bavarian Data Protection Authority Sends Inspection Questionnaire to 150 Companies UK Council Fined by ICO Over Publication of Sensitive Personal Data in Online Planning High Court Orders BBC to Reveal … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from the EU, France and the UK. European Union European Commission to Form Another Expert Group to Support the Application of the GDPR France French Data Protection Expert Appointed to the French Government UK Survey Reveals That 84% of SMEs Are Unaware of the Forthcoming GDPR ICO Publishes Its Information … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from Germany and the UK. Germany Federal Data Protection Commissioner Releases Leaflet on Digital Language Assistants Voßhoff Welcomes Federal Supreme Court Ruling on Dynamic IP Addresses UK ICO Opens Formal Investigation Into Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns Firm Fined £100,000 by ICO for Sending 3.3 Million Spam Text … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from the EU, Germany and the UK. EU EDPS Backs Article 29 Working Party in Opinion on Draft ePrivacy Regulation Germany Baden-Württemberg Data Protection Authority Appeals to Private Camera Drone Users Consumer Association Nordrhein-Westfalen Finds Data Protection Deficits in Wearables and Fitness Apps Federal Data Protection Commissioner Comments on Bundestag … Continue Reading
This week’s alert covers news from France and the UK. EU EDPS Presents Annual Report for 2016 to European Parliament UK ICO Issues Revised Guidance on Political Campaigning Online Retailer Fined After Cyber-attack Leaves Customer Details Vulnerable For more information on any of these items, or data privacy issues generally, please feel free to call … Continue Reading
Recent news has focused on the EU data protection laws and the Wikileaks and Edward Snowden incidents. However, there is another privacy law reform has occurred on the other side of the globe which is likely to have an impact on US corporations. On 12 March 2014 the Australian privacy law amendments come into effect. … Continue Reading
We recently released a Client Alert concerning enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission over EU/US Safe Harbor Framework for the cross-border transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States. On January 21, 2014, the FTC announced settlements with 12 US companies concerning false claims the companies had made regarding their … Continue Reading
As 2013 comes to an end it is advisable to note that reporting of data breaches this year reached a record high and included a number of high-profile incidents targeting such diverse entities as grocery chain Schnuck Markets, health care provider Kaiser Permanente, Yahoo and LexisNexis. More significantly, 2013 appears to have witnessed an uptick … Continue Reading
The UK Government has expressly recognised the call by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a change in UK law to enable it to issue fines against companies that make 100s rather than 1000s of nuisance calls (cold calls from companies trying to sell goods or services). The ICO is the UK’s regulator of … Continue Reading
In a recent article entitled “E-Privacy, Telcos and Online Providers: Issues of Consent,” originally published in InterMEDIA, Cathal Flynn and Matthew Byford (members of Squire Sanders’ Data Protection & Privacy practice), survey the current complex EU data protection and e-privacy rules (and proposed changes to such rules) relating to the form of consent that is required … Continue Reading
We are watching closely some proposed new UK laws. If approved, they would radically change the way in which businesses could market their goods or services by telephone in the UK. The proposed changes are in the Unsolicited Telephone Communications Bill 2013/14, which amends the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Currently, the … Continue Reading
