Interesting issues arose from the privacy related discussions at the Summer Legal Conference with major thought leaders on the GDPR obligations and their impact on businesses.
A decision of the Italian privacy authority on the illegal collection of data on criminal convictions of employees raised the issue on a practice that is quite common.
How to get ready for the GDPR right now? This was the topic of the seminar arranged to celebrate the one year deadline from the effective date of the EU Privacy Regulation.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “AP”) published a step-by-step plan for organisations to prepare for the upcoming EU Privacy Regulation.
The GDPR privacy data portability right is empowering individuals to have a full control on their personal data representing both an opportunity and a risk for businesses.
The draft ePrivacy Regulation obtained an opinion from the Article 29 Working Party which emphasises a number of positive aspects, but also some privacy related matters of concern.