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  Horlane

EE fined by ICO for sending unlawful texts

EE has been fined £100,000 by the ICO for sending 2.5 million unconsented direct marketing messages to its customers. We explain what companies should watch out for when sending direct marketing messages.  The messages, sent in early 2018, encouraged customers to access and use the ‘My EE’ app to manage their account and also to
juli 3, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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  bostjanm

Gmail is not telecommunications, rules ECJ

To the relief of Europe’s tech community, European Court of Justice rules that Gmail is not electronic communications service and does not fall under the EU regulatory framework for telecommunications. European regulatory Framework on electronic communications (or telecommunications) imposes a number of public law rights and obligations on the providers of services that consist ‘wholly
juni 21, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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  Horlane

EU cyber-attacks framework

The Council has established a framework (Council Regulation (EU) 2019/796)which allows the EU to impose sanctions in relation to cyber-attacks which constitute an external threat to the EU or its Member States. It also includes cyber-attacks against third States or international organisations where restricted measures are considered necessary to achieve the objectives of the Common
juni 7, 2019 Comment (1) Share
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  cristinac

Practical guidance on how to process mixed datasets

The European Commission has published guidance on the interaction between the Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data and the GDPR. One year after the GDPR started to apply, most controllers are (or at least they should) well aware of the security and privacy requirements that should govern the datasets which contain personal data.
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  cristinac

What data should a controller disclose under a data subject access request?

A recent decision from the Cologne Regional Court addresses whether individuals are entitled to receive emails and personal notes as part of a DSAR. “I want access to all personal data you handle about me”. What should you do as the controller if you receive an email like this? According to GDPR, individuals have the right to obtain:
mei 31, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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  cristinac

Aphaia delivers its first data protection workshop in Madrid

The workshop took place at Aphaia’s premises and it was focus on privacy, cybersecurity and data protection. Taking advantage of the first GDPR anniversary, Aphaia decided to deliver a workshop to share our experience with other businesses that may be struggling with data protection issues. Even though GDPR came into force in 2018, Aphaia has
mei 29, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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  Horlane

Workplace collection of Biometric Data

Does the collection of biometric data by employer violate privacy? For the first time in Australian history, an employee was fired for refusing to submit biometric finger scanning data required by his employer. The employee believes that he had been wrongfully terminated. After he was denied an unfair dismissal claim by an Australia’s Fair Work
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  cristinac

Google’s Huawei ban

Google blocks Huawei access to Android after blacklisting due to some security and privacy concerns The Trump administration adds Huawei to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List via executive order, thereby blacklisting the company as far as U.S. corporations are concerned.  The world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, has been barred by Google from
mei 22, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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EU-Japan artificial intelligence cooperation

EU Vice-President Ansip and Japan Minister Hirai discussed bilateral cooperation to promote a human-centric approach to artificial intelligence (AI), building on the joint statement of the 26th EU-Japan summit. European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip and Japan’s Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Takuya Hirai said after their meeting: “The
mei 17, 2019 Comments (0) Share
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Unlawful voice data to be deleted!

A complaint from the Big Brother Watch instigated an investigation into HMRC’s Voice ID service. The ICOs investigation mainly dealt with the voice authentication for customer verification on some of HMRC’s helplines since January 2017. Customers were given insufficient information when it came to how their biometric data would be processed. Biometric data is considered
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