EDPB clarifies implementation DPF redress mechanisms
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📝 The EDPB clarifies implementation of the Data Protection.. errrr, I mean *Privacy* Framework redress mechanisms!
EDPB's controversial ‘Consent or Pay’ Opinion is here
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[Updated 24 April with highlighted file + 🎙️] Is the EDPB trying to "rewrite the entire economic model of Big Tech and the adtech industry in the EU"? 🤔 Controversial Opinion just published!
EDPB Annual report 2023
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Today, the EDPB shared their 2023 annual report. Read the press release directly here and grab both the report and its Executive Summary.
Denmark DPA changes data processing agreement SCCs
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🇩🇰 DPA changes sub-processor third-party beneficiary clause in their SCCs for data processing agreements as per Article 28(8). Agreements signed before this are still valid.
New CJEU ruling + AG opinion DPAs might dread (C-768/21 Land Hessen)
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Breaching GDPR rights doesn't automatically result in non-material damage, and controllers can't (ever?) escape liability simply because someone under their authority didn't follow instructions, and an AG Opinion may disrupt DPAs workload. 😬
CJEU C-101/01 Bodil Lindqvist 6 Nov 2003
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A key (Directive 95/46/EC) ruling broadly interpreting key definitions (personal and health data, processing) and narrowly applied exceptions, but found that simply putting a website online doesn't necessarily result in transfers.
CJEU C-46/23 Ujpesti Polgarmesteri Hivatal 14 Mar 2023
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DPAs can order controllers to delete unlawfully processed data without a prior request from a data subject, and regardless of where the data came from (the data subject or elsewhere).
CJEU C-740/22 Endemol Shine Finland 7 Mar 2024
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Orally disclosing personal data = 'processing' and potentially subject to the GDPR, and sharing criminal data orally (or in writing) isn't allowed to fulfill a public access request.
Denmark DPA says cookie walls are legal - and not
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Update 26 Mar 2024: the DPA rejects reopening the cases, upholding that analytics/statistics aren't a necessary part of the alternative to paid access.
France DPA fines Amazon €32m for invasive employee monitoring
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[22 March update: Amazon has appealed] The 🇫🇷 CNIL fined Amazon for excessively intrusive monitoring, using several illegal indicators and unsecure video surveillance software, without sufficiently informing employees and visitors.
🔥 Swedish Tax Agency greenlights (?) US cloud services
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Following the EU-US DPF, the 🇸🇪 Tax Agency approves using Microsoft Office 365 and Teams. Despite emphasising that everyone must do their own assessments, I'd say this could strengthen your own cloud services assessments.
France: unemployment breach impacts 43m dating back 20 years
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🇫🇷 Massive breach and what we can learn immediately from it: data minimisation, deletion, breach response plans - and communication that people actually understand!