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Will free apps soon be dead in Europe?

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Mobile Privacy, Online Advertising, Social Media, Uncategorized

As we’ve discussed previously, the GDPR significantly limits user consent as a basis for processing personal data.  One interesting question is whether the new rules on consent will kill free apps in Europe.  Free apps typically involve the offer of a service (the app) in exchange for access to personal data (whatever data the app… Continue Reading

The EU Commission’s spin on the new General Data Protection Regulation

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Events and Webinars, Safe Harbor, Uncategorized

The European Union Commission has issued a fact sheet on the new General Data Protection Regulation (final post-trilogue text available via Statewatch).  The Commission claims that the Regulation is good for individuals and good for business.  We’ll leave that to readers . . . and history . . . .to decide. As regulations go, the… Continue Reading

Key EU Parliamentary Committee Votes to Adopt the General Data Protection Regulation

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union

As expected, the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (also known as LIBE) voted today to adopt the new General Data Protection Regulation (see the summary we provided yesterday here).  A LIBE press release announced the vote with the proclamation “New EU rules on data protection put the citizen back in the driving seat.”  The vote was… Continue Reading

The General Data Protection Regulation in Bullet Points

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Safe Harbor, Security, Social Media

Updated at 8:50 pm GMT on 16 December 2015. The new General Data Protection Regulation is effectively a “done deal” following the final trilogue meeting on December 15.  One might assume based on UK media coverage that the biggest change in EU privacy law is that kids under 16 will need their parent’s consent to… Continue Reading

At long last . . . the EU General Data Protection Regulation negotiations have wrapped up

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in Uncategorized

The EU has announced that the Commission, Parliament and Council have reached agreement on the final shape of the General Data Protection Regulation.  The official version will be available early in 2016, but we will be reviewing the details that have been made available so far and providing further information here over the next couple of… Continue Reading

Thinking Big about Data – the new EDPS Ethics Board

Posted By Susan Foster on Posted in EDPS, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation

  Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), recently announced the formation of a new external Ethics Board that will do a deep dive into the complex ethical issues that surround the use of  personal data in the “big data” economy.  (See press release and full opinion links here.)  The EDPS is particularly concerned… Continue Reading