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Data Processing
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Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
Navigating Data Processing Ethics for FinTech in Hong Kong
If adopted efficiently, the PCPD’s Ethical Accountability Framework should help organizations to demonstrate and enhance trust with individuals. By Kieran Donovan In October, 2018, Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal…
Inside Privacy
CJEU rules that Facebook and website operators are joint controllers if the website embeds Facebook’s “Like” button
By Dan Cooper, Sam Jungyun Choi, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses
On July 29, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down its judgment in the Fashion ID case (Case C-40/17). The CJEU found that when a…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
European Data Protection Board Covers Wide Range of Issues at 12th Plenary Session
By Odia Kagan
The European Data Protection Board's addressed some interesting issues during its 12th Plenary Session on July 9 and 10: Guidelines on how the GDPR applies to the processing of personal…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
It’s Not All About Consent: Wired Magazine Takes on GDPR Myths
By Odia Kagan
"In reality, GDPR was never really about getting people's consent. Consent for data processing is just one way that an individual's information can be collected and used." It's not just…
Global Workplace Insider
L’obligation de tenter de réaffecter un employé incompétent dans un autre poste : une question de faits
Croyez-vous qu’il est suffisant pour un employeur québécois d’établir des politiques et de fixer des attentes claires à un employé; de lui signaler ses lacunes; de lui fournir le support…
Consumer Protection Connection
EDPB Advises on Overlap Between the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has weighed in on the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive in response to questions from the Belgian…
Inside Cybersecurity & Privacy Law
Using Performance of a Contract as a Legal Basis for Processing in the Context of Online Services
By Mark A. Prinsley, Oliver Yaros
The European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") published on April 12, 2019 the draft Guidelines 2/2019 (the "EDPB Guidelines") on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1)(b) of the General…
Privacy World
EDPB Guidelines on Contract as a Legal Basis for Processing: No Hotchpotch Allowed!
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published draft guidelines on the “processing of personal data under the contractual legal basis in the context of the provision of online services…
Global Media and Communications Watch
The EDPB’s Narrow View of Contractual Necessity
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has adopted the narrowest possible interpretation of ‘contractual necessity’ as a ground for processing of personal data. The Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Italy’s DPA Fines Data Processor for Information Security Failures
By Odia Kagan
Caveat Data Processor. Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante, has issued a 50,000 EUR fine against a data processor platform for its failures to implement several information security measures. Service providers…