The Guardian has recently revealed that there were vulnerabilities into the Whatsapp encryption system. Indeed, because of re-sending system that would change the encryption keys each time a user reply to a message, government agencies could access any message sent.
Draft E-Privacy Regulation Released
On January 10, 2017 the European Commission released the draft E-Privacy Regulation. This regulation should replace the current E-privacy directive 2002/58/EC relating to privacy of electronic communication (cookies, direct marketing consent etc.) According to the Commission, the new draft will
International Transfer: the EC will enter into adequacy negotiation with Japan and South Korea in 2017
The European Commission (EC) has released a communication about its future international personal data transfer strategy. The Commission has planned to engage proactively in discussions on reaching “adequacy decisions” with key trading partners in East and South East Asia but
CJEU: Combating Crime Does Not Justify General Retention and Unrestricted Access to Location and Traffic Data
In its decision of December 21, 2016 (Joined Cases C-203/15 and C-698/15) the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that national legislation may not provide for general and indiscriminate retention of all traffic and location data of
GDPR: First Guidelines Released
Following its plenary meeting held on the 12th and 13th of December, the WP29 (group of the European data protection authorities) has released its first guidelines providing its interpretation of the GDPR provisions on the following : – Data portability