The new UK Data Protection Bill was announced during the Queen’s Speech of June 2017 and will update the current data protection laws. It was introduced to the House of Lords on 13 September 2017.According to the Data Protection Bill fact
GDPR Guidelines: The ICO and the CNIL have launched public consultations
The UK and French Data Protection authorities (the ICO and the CNIL) are consulting on their respective draft GDPR guidelines until October 10, 2017 for the UK and October 19, 2017 for France. The CNIL consultation is on international data
ECHR: Monitoring of employees’ electronic communications may amount to a breach of their right to private life (press release summary)
The judgement Bărbulescu v. Romania (application no. 61496/08) handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on September 5, 2017 concerned the decision of a private company to dismiss an employee after monitoring his electronic communications and accessing
Privacy Shield: The FTC issues orders against three US companies for misrepresentation
In three separate law enforcement actions, the FTC has alleged that companies made false claims about Privacy Shield participation. In the three proposed settlements open to comment until October 10, the companies will be prohibited to misrepresent users about their
Japan to receive adequacy decision by 2018 (Press release)
Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, and Haruhi Kumazawa, Commissioner of the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan released a joint statement following their meeting of July 4 on the state of play of the dialogue on data protection. They