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October 1, 2020
Irish Guidance on Consent & Cookies – Grace Period ends on 5 October
On 6 April, the Data Protection Commission of Ireland (DPC) released a substantive Guidance Note on cookies (Guidance) and provided organizations a grace period of six months to ensure compliance. After the end of the six-month window,...
September 7, 2020
Why you need to adopt SECURITI.ai’s Consent Management Platform
Since the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has released updated Guidelines on Consent, Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) have been reevaluating their practices in relation to governance, collection and management of users’ consent. Gone are the...
September 6, 2020
Analyzing Assessments and Additional Safeguards for Cross Border Data Transfers post Schrems-II
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released a decision invalidating the US-EU Privacy Shield arrangement for transatlantic data transfers and changing obligations of data controllers when using Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as...
September 3, 2020
EDPB’s Updated Guidelines on Consent
On May 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board released updated guidelines on Consent (Guidelines). The Guidelines adhere to the requirements of consent provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the e-Privacy Directive and have...
September 2, 2020
Schrems-II judgment opens door for complaints on EU-US transfers
Things are getting serious for 101 EU data controllers sending data to the US – Max Schrems’ organization “NOYB” lodges complaints with various EU authorities One month ago, the Court of Justice of the European...
August 18, 2020
Thailand’s first-ever Personal Data Protection Act
The government of Thailand has passed its first-ever data protection law, the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) that came into effect in May 2020. Like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the PDPA...
August 18, 2020
The e-Privacy Directive and the e-Privacy Regulation – What to Expect
With the increase in digitalization and its impacts on the globe, a new wave of data privacy laws has emerged. Countries all across the world are increasingly acknowledging the need for the protection of personal...
July 28, 2020
Evolve Your Data Mapping
Whether the goal is compliance or data governance, to assess risk and apply necessary controls, organizations must be able to accurately track a piece of information (data) from its point of collection to its eventual...
July 20, 2020
New Dubai Data Protection Law
In this era where data privacy regulations are sprouting up almost daily, another city has taken data privacy rights into consideration and devised a law that resembles the likes of GDPR. In 2004, Dubai’s International...
July 20, 2020
The Privacy Shield has been broken: What’s Next?
In a major upset, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximilian Schrems (Case C-311/18) (or colloquially referred to as Schrems-II in the privacy community)...
