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Withdrawal of Consent Should be Easy

Withdrawal of consent requests could have dire consequencesfor your company if they are not immediately and seamlessly processed. Withdrawal of consent should be just as easy as giving consent.  So says the President of the Polish Data Protection Authority. This assessment came as a result of the review of practices by company ClickQuickNow. According to
November 15, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Hash function as a personal data pseudonymisation technique

Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) has launched new guidance on hash function as a personal data pseudonymisation technique. GDPR refers pseudonymization of personal data as one of the appropriate technical and organisational measures that may be taken by data controllers in order to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk. However, it does
November 13, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Failure to adhere to GDPR’s Right to Object results in EUR 200,000 Fine

Hellenic Telecommunications Company fined EUR 200,000 for failure to remove email addresses from direct marketing database in keeping with GDPR’s right to object. Have you ever clicked unsubscribe from a marketing emailing list but still continued to receive emails? From experience, I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that the likelihood of
November 6, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act

Published earlier this year, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act will come into full force in May 2020. Today, we live in a highly connected technological era where data is king. Indeed Digitization has resulted in a world where data underpins almost all aspects of our lives to the point where our personal data is constantly
October 30, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Age Appropriate Design Overview

Expected to come into effect by December 2019, the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code will be the first of its kind and will have major implications for online services. Statistically speaking it is estimated that by the time a child is 18 there will be 70000 data points about them. With everything we know about
October 25, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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CCPA vs GDPR

CCPA vs GDPR. In this blog we take a look at similarities and differences between the CCPA and the GDPR.  It has been a year and a half since the GDPR started to apply. Did you think you were done adapting all your data processes to the Regulation? Don’t miss this post! You might still
October 23, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Apple faces scrutiny for data sharing practices

Apple accused of potential improper data-sharing. Earlier this month American multinational technology company Apple came under scrutiny for its data-sharing practice of sending IP addresses from users of its Safari browser to Google and Chinese-based tech company Tencent. Apple has since defended this practice, noting that it is a Safari Fraudulent Warning security feature aimed
October 18, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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CCPA Regulations Overview

CCPA Regulations, the Californian GDPR? California Attorney General releases draftRegulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act. You think Data Privacy and Data Protection and it’s more than likely that the GDPR or the UK Data Protection Act 2018 will come to mind. This is because over the last few years significant strides have been made
October 16, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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CJEU says active behavior required for cookies consent

The CJEU clarifies that “consent” in data protection and privacy laws in relation to cookies compliance refers to consent through active behaviour. This week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling resolving the definition of the term consent in regards to cookies compliance.  This came about as a result of
October 4, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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WhatsApp conversations may be deemed valid contract in Spain

Using WhatsApp blue tick to sign contracts? WhatsApp chats have been considered a verbal contract between the parties by a Court in Vigo (Galicia, Spain). WhatsApp conversations may be a legally binding contract for the parties. An unpaid rent was the origin of this ruling. The landlords sued the tenant and the Court accepted the WhatsApp
October 2, 2019 Comments (0) Share